Navarro v. JUSD, et al.
Mar 01, 2022OUTCOME: $9 million Settlement
Wrongful death, heat exertion
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Austin G. Ward's Legal Cases (9)
Los Angeles, CA
Personal injury Lawyer at Los Angeles, CA
Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Wrongful Death ... +10 more
Gonzalez v. Duran Family Trust
Aug 13, 2021OUTCOME: $1 million settlement
Plaintiff fell down stairs at apartment due to poor lighting, fracturing the Tib/Fib.
Marth v. Southern California Edison
Jul 21, 2018OUTCOME: $5.2 million settlement
Wrongfully death case involving electrified decedent working on SCE transformers.
Tieu v. Sina International Inc., et al.
Feb 15, 2018OUTCOME: $1.26 million jury verdict
On the afternoon of December 19, 2013, decedent Khang Van Tieu and 20 passengers were traveling northbound on Interstate 15 aboard a Sina International Inc. tour bus driven by defendant Jian Fehn Duan, ... en route to Westminster, California from Pala Casino Spa Resort in San Diego County. The highway was wet due to periodic, heavy rainfall and visibility was limited to three-miles. At approximately 2:30 p.m., Mr. Duan applied the brakes to slow the bus but because he was driving at an excessive speed for the roadway conditions, there was not enough traction and the vehicle began to spin out of control before hitting a guardrail and overturning. As a result of the tour bush crash, Mr. Duan and 20 other passengers on the bus sustained injuries. Mr. Tieu was transported to Riverside Community Hospital with multiple, severe blunt force trauma injuries, which proved fatal within six hours after the car accident. An investigation by California Highway Patrol determined the cause of the collision was due to Mr. Duan’s driving at an unsafe speed for roadway conditions because the roadway was wet when Mr. Duan applied the brake, there was not enough traction to safely slow the vehicle and the bus swerved out of control into the dirt shoulder, hit the guardrail and over-turned. No mechanical deficiencies contributed to the collision. Defendant admitted that Mr. Duan was in the course and scope of his employment with the Defendant Sina International, Inc. at the time of the collision and that his negligent operation of the bus, including travelling at an unsafe speed for the wet roadways, caused the bus to roll-over on the freeway. Defendants later admitted that Mr. Tieu’s death was caused by Defendants’ negligence. At trial, the defense argued that the man’s life expectancy was significantly limited by his advanced age and alleged various medical conditions.
Monarrez v. AAA
Apr 21, 2016OUTCOME: $7.5 million settlement
Client was hit by hit-and-run driver due to AAA technician’s negligence.
Rabb v. State of California, et al.
Dec 10, 2015OUTCOME: $9.9 million jury verdict
Mr. Ward was part of the trial team that represented Jerry Rabb, a 57-year-old husband, and father of three, who lived in El Centro, California. Mr. Rabb sustained a below the knee amputation and a lit ... any of orthopedic injuries as a result of being struck by a negligently driven truck owned by the State of California. Mr. Ward also represented the victim’s wife in her loss of consortium claim.
Sheaffer v. NuCo2, et al.
Jun 03, 2015OUTCOME: $17.4 million jury verdict
Mr. Ward, alongside Brian Panish, Deborah Chang, and Tom Schultz represented 27-year-old Ph.D. candidate Russell Sheaffer, who had sustained severe facial injuries and a mild traumatic brain injury aft ... er being involved in a six-vehicle collision caused by a negligently driven NuC02 truck.
Rennie v. FedEx Ground, et al.
Dec 17, 2014OUTCOME: $7.5 million jury verdict
Mr. Ward was a part of the trial team that represented a grieving mother who had lost her only child when her daughter, Chelsea Joy Kashergen, was fatally struck by a negligently driven FedEx Ground ho ... me delivery vehicle. Ms. Kashergen was an accomplished musician, writer, and a 2012 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Cal State Fullerton. At the time of her death, she was President of the New Orleans Jazz Club of Southern California and played Dixieland Jazz in a variety of venues.
Johnson/Allen/Cascio v. City of Beverly Hills
N/AOUTCOME: $32.5 million settlement
Mr. Ward was part of the legal team that obtained a landmark $32,500,000 settlement on behalf of two clients who were catastrophically injured and two clients whose father was killed in two collisions ... on Loma Vista Drive in Beverly Hills, California. Plaintiff Eric Johnson was seriously injured when his loaded cement truck lost its brakes while driving down Loma Vista Drive, causing him to crash into parked vehicles to stop his runaway descent. Only one week later, on May 9, 2014, LAPD Detective Ernest Allen, Sr. was killed when a cement truck operated by Plaintiff Brandon Cascio on Loma Vista Drive lost its brakes, ran off the road at a sharp curve, and rolled over on top of Detective Allen’s pickup truck. As a result of his injuries, Mr. Cascio was left in a persistent vegetative coma.