Motor Vehicle Crash Litigation
Motor Vehicle Crash Trial Lawyer
Most car crash cases are handled in bulk — signed, settled, and closed by firms built on volume. Serious injuries deserve the opposite: one trial lawyer, full preparation, and an insurer that knows a jury is a real possibility.
Why These Cases Are Different Here
Serious Cases Deserve More Than a Settlement Mill
A serious crash case is not a paperwork exercise. Liability gets disputed, injuries get minimized, and the insurer’s first number reflects what it thinks your lawyer will do about it. Preparation is the answer to all three.
Not a Volume Practice
Some firms sign hundreds of crash cases and settle them in batches. We take fewer cases and prepare each one for trial — because that is what moves serious cases.
The Insurer Knows Who Tries Cases
Adjusters track which lawyers take verdicts. That reputation changes the number — and the timeline. Cases resolve faster, and for more, when the alternative is a courtroom.
"Minor Impact" Is a Defense Strategy
Insurers argue that modest vehicle damage means modest injury. Medicine says otherwise — and juries can be shown otherwise. We do not let a bumper photo decide a spine case.
Every Policy on the Table
The at-fault driver’s policy is only the start. Vehicle owners, employers, umbrella policies, and your own underinsured-motorist coverage — full recovery means finding every dollar of coverage.
What We Investigate
The Crash, Reconstructed
A serious crash case is built in the first weeks, from evidence that disappears fast — data gets overwritten, vehicles get scrapped, cameras record over themselves. This is what we go get, on every case.
01
The Vehicles
Modern cars record the crash better than any witness — if the data is preserved before the vehicles are gone.
- Event data recorder — speed, braking, steering, seatbelts at impact
- Crush damage and repair records that prove the forces involved
- Preservation letters before either vehicle is sold or scrapped
- The other driver’s vehicle matters as much as yours
02
The Scene
The roadway tells its story for a few days at most. We get there before it fades.
- Skid marks, gouges, and debris fields — measured and photographed
- Sight lines, signal timing, and road design
- Nearby cameras: businesses, homes, traffic systems
- Reconstruction experts who turn measurements into exhibits
03
The Driver
Who was behind the other wheel — and what were they doing in the seconds before impact?
- Cell phone records and distracted-driving evidence
- Impairment: alcohol, drugs, fatigue
- Driving history and prior violations
- On the job? The employer may be responsible too
04
The Witnesses
Independent voices decide disputed-liability cases. Finding them takes legwork — and it cannot wait.
- 911 calls and dispatch records
- Dashcams, doorbell cameras, and phone video
- Neighborhood and business canvass for witnesses
- Statements locked in before memories change
05
The Coverage
A verdict only matters if there is coverage to pay it. Finding every policy is part of the case.
- The driver’s policy — and the vehicle owner’s
- Employer and umbrella coverage
- Your own underinsured-motorist (UM/UIM) coverage
- Policy-limit demands that put the insurer at risk for the excess
Proven at Trial
Crash Cases, Tried to Verdict
These are not settle-quick cases for us. As lead trial counsel, Evan Garcia won a $1.37 million jury verdict in Los Angeles County for a client who required lumbar decompression surgery after a motor vehicle crash — and a $3.09 million jury verdict, also in Los Angeles County, for a cervical disc replacement in a crash involving a Metro Bus.
And when a crash involves a commercial vehicle — a semi, a bus, a delivery fleet — the case changes entirely: federal regulations, corporate defendants, and evidence that has to be preserved immediately. That is our signature practice.
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Motorcyclists and Pedestrians
Riders and pedestrians face a double bias: drivers who never saw them, and insurers who blame them for it. “He came out of nowhere” is not a defense — it is an admission that the driver was not looking. These cases turn on visibility science, right-of-way, and speed analysis — and on a lawyer willing to put the bias itself on trial.
The TrialReady Approach
Prepared for Trial From Day One
As lead trial counsel, Evan Garcia has secured more than $86 million in verdicts and settlements for injured clients — including jury verdicts in crash cases where the injury, the liability, or both were disputed to the end.
Insurers track which lawyers actually try cases. When a crash case arrives prepared — the data preserved, the scene documented, the experts retained — settlement negotiations change. And when they don’t change enough, we are ready.
$86M+
Recovered for Injured Clients
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