Mass Casualty & Disaster Litigation
Mass Casualty & Disaster Trial Lawyer
When one event injures many — a fire, an explosion, an industrial or worksite disaster — the companies responsible are organized within hours: lawyers, adjusters, a unified story. The people they hurt deserve the same level of organization. We bring it.
Why These Cases Are Different
One Event. Many Lives. Every Case Tried Individually.
Multi-victim events are litigated at institutional scale — by the defense. Matching that scale, while never letting any single client become a line item, is what this practice is built for.
Many Victims, One Event
A disaster produces shared evidence and shared defendants — but no two victims’ losses are alike. We coordinate the common case while preparing each client’s story as if it alone will reach the jury.
Industrial & Worksite Disasters
Refineries, plants, warehouses, construction sites. These cases turn on safety programs that existed on paper and failed in practice — and on the contractors and companies behind them.
The Evidence Is Institutional
OSHA and Cal/OSHA investigations, permits, training records, contractor agreements, incident histories. The proof lives in institutional files — and institutions do not hand them over willingly.
National Reach
Evan Garcia is called into significant mass casualty and trucking cases across the country, appearing pro hac vice alongside local counsel. When the event is big enough, geography is not a limit.
Fires & Industrial Incidents
These Are Not Accidents. They Are Failures.
Burn injuries are among the most devastating in all of civil law — months of treatment, grafts and reconstruction, permanent disfigurement, and trauma that outlasts the physical recovery. And the events that cause them — fires, explosions, toxic releases — are almost never “accidents” in any honest sense. They are failures: of maintenance, of training, of safety systems someone decided not to fund.
These cases are built on the regulatory record — investigation findings, citation histories, permits, and internal safety audits — and on untangling the web of owners, operators, and contractors who each insist the fault belongs to someone else.
Worksite Injuries
Hurt on the Job? Workers’ Comp Is Not the End.
Most injured workers are told the same thing: workers’ compensation is your only remedy. That is often wrong. Comp covers the relationship between you and your employer — but it does not protect the other companies on a jobsite. General contractors, subcontractors, equipment manufacturers, property owners — any of them can be responsible beyond the comp system.
A third-party case runs alongside the comp claim and can recover what comp never pays: full lost earnings, and compensation for pain, disfigurement, and a changed life. If you were seriously hurt at work, the most important question is the one nobody at the comp desk will ask: who else was responsible?
National Reach
A National Practice
Mass casualty litigation is a national practice. Evan Garcia is called into significant cases across the country, appearing pro hac vice alongside local counsel, and speaks nationally on trucking litigation and the use of AI in litigation. The firm is built to try the case wherever the case is.
The TrialReady Approach
Prepared for Trial From Day One
Mass casualty and industrial cases are where preparation is most visible — and where its absence is most costly. As lead trial counsel, Evan Garcia has secured more than $86 million in verdicts and settlements for injured clients and grieving families.
Institutional defendants track which lawyers actually try cases. When a disaster case arrives prepared — the regulatory record mastered, the corporate web mapped, the experts retained — settlement negotiations change. And when they don’t change enough, we are ready.
$86M+
Recovered for Injured Clients and Families
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