Trial lawyers handling auto, truck, motorcycle, premises, and wrongful death cases across the 88 cities of LA County, from Lancaster to Long Beach. Free consultation. No fee unless we recover for you.
Attorney Advertising. Cameron Yadidi Brock, California State Bar #183112. Verify at calbar.ca.gov. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes. Last Updated: May 28, 2026.
Call (323) 643-1740, 24/7. LA County drivers face the country’s worst traffic and the country’s most aggressive insurance defense bar. Our office is in Beverly Hills, our trial lawyers know Stanley Mosk and Long Beach Superior, and we have driven to client bedsides at LAC+USC, Cedars-Sinai, and Harbor-UCLA more times than we can count. Your call is answered by a person, not a bot.
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Cameron Yadidi Brock founded the firm in 2003 after years inside the LA defense bar. He grew up here, took the bar at 24, and tried his first jury case at Stanley Mosk before he turned 26. The firm runs out of a Beverly Hills office on Wilshire Boulevard, with attorneys regularly in court from downtown to Long Beach to Pomona to Lancaster. Our clients live in Echo Park, work in El Segundo, commute the 405, get hit on the 101, and recover at hospitals from UCLA to Harbor. LA County is not one place. It is the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, South Bay, the Eastside, the Gateway Cities, the Antelope Valley, and the San Gabriel Valley, each with its own traffic patterns, its own jury demographics, its own court culture. We treat them that way.
The 405, the 101, the 110, the 5, the 10. LA averages around 50,000 reported collisions a year. We handle the rear-enders on Sepulveda and the 90-mph T-bones on the I-105. Car accident attorneys »
Big rigs out of the Port of LA and Long Beach feed onto the 710 and 60. A loaded tractor-trailer at 55 mph carries 25 times the kinetic energy of a sedan. Truck cases need FMCSA expertise, ELD subpoenas, and fast scene preservation. Truck accident attorneys »
California is a lane-splitting state. Riders on the Westside, the canyons above Malibu, and the Angeles Crest get hit by inattentive drivers who claim they “didn’t see.” We do the helmet-cam pull and the 911 audio request the same week. Motorcycle accident attorneys »
LAX has the second-highest rideshare pickup volume in the country. Uber and Lyft carry $1M in liability coverage during an active ride, $50K/$100K between rides. The coverage tier depends on the driver’s app state at impact. We pull the app data. Rideshare attorneys »
Two-year statute under CCP §335.1. Successor-in-interest declarations under CCP §377.32. We have walked families through the LA County Coroner process, the Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, and the wrongful death complaint at Mosk. Wrongful death attorneys »
Neuroimaging from Ronald Reagan UCLA, Cedars, and LAC+USC. We work with named neuropsychologists for cognitive testing and life-care planners for future damages. Subtle TBI cases (no skull fracture, normal CT) are often the hardest fight and the highest value. Brain injury attorneys »
California Civil Code §3342 is strict liability. The owner pays whether the dog had bitten before or not. We handle the disfigurement cases that need plastic surgery referrals to UCLA or Children’s Hospital LA. Dog bite attorneys »
LA County sees house fires, electrical burns from substandard wiring in older Hollywood and Koreatown apartments, and chemical burns from industrial work in Vernon and Commerce. Grossman Burn Center in West Hills handles many of our clients. Burn injury attorneys »
Premises cases under Civ Code §1714. Grocery aisles in Ralphs, hotel lobbies on the Strip in West Hollywood, parking structures at LAX, broken sidewalks the City of LA failed to repair. Notice and constructive notice are the fights. Slip and fall attorneys »
Van Nuys is one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country. Helicopter crashes in the Santa Monica Mountains. Small-plane mishaps at Whiteman and Hawthorne. NTSB reports, FAA records, and aircraft maintenance logs are the core evidence. Aviation accident attorneys »
Brush fires in the Santa Monica Mountains, the Verdugos, and the Angeles National Forest reach homes every season. Utility-caused fires raise inverse condemnation claims against SCE and LADWP. Smoke and ash contamination cases require industrial hygienists. Fire damage attorneys »
Hotels, casinos in Commerce and Bell Gardens, gyms, restaurants, retail. Negligent security cases after assaults in apartment complexes and parking structures are a separate animal. They need crime-grid analysis and prior-incident discovery. Premises liability attorneys »
LA County Superior is the largest unified trial court in the United States. Venue inside the county is governed by the court’s district rules and where the cause of action arose. Knowing which courthouse handles your case before you file matters. The jury pool, the bench, and the docket pace differ.
Stanley Mosk Courthouse (Downtown, Civil). 111 N. Hill Street. The main civil filing center for general personal injury cases above the limited jurisdiction threshold. Direct calendar judges, electronic filing through File & ServeXpress. Larger cases ($25K+) and high-profile matters land here.
Spring Street Courthouse. 312 N. Spring Street. Handles complex civil litigation, the Personal Injury Hub for the Central District, and class actions. Many of our larger PI matters route through Spring Street’s PI Hub for pretrial management before transferring out for trial.
Norwalk Courthouse. 12720 Norwalk Boulevard. Southeast District. Serves the Gateway Cities: Norwalk, Downey, Bellflower, Cerritos, Pico Rivera. Jury pool skews working-class and union households.
Long Beach Courthouse. 275 Magnolia Avenue. South District. Serves Long Beach, Signal Hill, San Pedro, Wilmington, Lakewood. Port-and-shipping county. Long Beach juries often understand industrial injury cases on instinct.
Pomona Courthouse. 400 Civic Center Plaza. East District. Serves Pomona, Diamond Bar, Claremont, La Verne, San Dimas. Auto cases off the 10 and the 60 frequently file here.
Van Nuys Courthouse. 6230 Sylmar Avenue. Northwest District. Serves the San Fernando Valley: Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, Reseda, Encino. Heavy auto and premises docket.
Santa Monica Courthouse. 1725 Main Street. West District. Serves Santa Monica, Venice, Pacific Palisades, parts of West LA. Higher median household income in the jury pool; cases involving high-earner damages claims often perform here.
Glendale Courthouse. 600 East Broadway. North Central District. Serves Glendale, Burbank, La Crescenta-Montrose. Large Armenian-American community in the jury pool; case framing matters.
Pasadena Courthouse. 300 East Walnut Street. Northeast District. Serves Pasadena, Altadena, Sierra Madre, Arcadia, Monrovia. Older docket, conservative jury pool, professionals and academics.
The hospital your treatment runs through shapes the case file. The records matter, the treating physicians become potential trial witnesses, and the hospital lien (Civ Code §3045.1 et seq.) affects the net recovery.
Why this matters for case value: insurance adjusters cross-reference the hospital, the discharge diagnosis, and the billing record. A patient who walked into urgent care two days after a crash has a harder fight than a patient who arrived at LAC+USC by ambulance and was admitted. We help clients document treatment from day one and connect them with named specialists when the initial ER discharge missed something.
Two years from the date of injury for most personal injury claims in California. Code of Civil Procedure §335.1. Miss the deadline, the case is barred. Period.
Six months for claims against a public entity. If LA Metro, LADOT, City of Los Angeles, LAUSD, LA County, or any other public agency caused or contributed to your injury, you must file a government tort claim within six months under Government Code §911.2. The agency has 45 days to respond. Only after the claim is rejected (or deemed rejected) can a lawsuit be filed. The clock on the lawsuit is then six months from the rejection notice under Gov Code §945.6. Missed by a day, the case is dead.
Public entity cases come up more than people expect: a Metro bus rear-ends you, a city pothole takes you off your bike, an LAUSD bus is the at-fault vehicle, a county-maintained intersection lacks proper signage. Call early.
California is a pure comparative negligence state. Civil Code §1714 governs duty of care, and the comparative negligence doctrine was adopted by the California Supreme Court in Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804.
What that means in practice: a jury finds your total damages, then assigns a percentage of fault to each party. Your recovery is reduced by your share of fault, but you can still recover even if you were mostly responsible.
Example: a jury values your damages at $500,000 and finds you 30% at fault for failing to use a crosswalk. You recover $350,000. In a contributory negligence state (like Virginia or Maryland), 30% fault would zero you out. California does not work that way.
Insurance defense will push hard to load fault onto you. Our job is to push back with the police report, the scene reconstruction, the dashcam, and the witness statements.
Economic damages. Past and future medical bills, lost wages, lost earning capacity, property damage, out-of-pocket costs. Documented to the dollar.
Non-economic damages. Pain and suffering, emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life, disfigurement, loss of consortium. No statutory cap in standard PI cases (medical malpractice has the MICRA cap under Civ Code §3333.2, recently raised by AB 35).
Punitive damages. Available where the defendant acted with malice, oppression, or fraud. Civil Code §3294. The standard is clear and convincing evidence. We have asked for punitives in drunk-driving cases, in cases involving prior incidents the defendant ignored, and in negligent security cases where the property owner knew about prior crimes.
We have tried cases in front of LA County juries for more than 20 years. That is not marketing language; it is a docket history we can walk through.
1. Free Consultation. Call (323) 643-1740 or fill out the contact form. We talk through what happened, what you remember, and what you have. No fee for the call. No obligation to hire us.
2. Investigation. We pull the police report (CHP, LAPD, LASD, or local PD depending on where you were hit), the 911 audio, the body-cam video if any, the surveillance from nearby businesses, and the relevant scene photos. Time-sensitive. Some evidence disappears within days.
3. Treatment and Documentation. You focus on getting better. We document. We talk to your treating physicians, we collect the records and bills, and we monitor liens. If you need a specialist and have no insurance, we connect you with providers willing to treat on a lien.
4. Demand and Negotiation. Once you reach maximum medical improvement, we package the case (medical summary, wage loss, pain-and-suffering narrative, future care plan) and demand from the insurer. Most cases settle in this phase. Some do not.
5. Litigation and Trial. If the insurer’s number does not match the case, we file. Discovery, depositions, mediation, and trial. Our trial lawyers have tried cases at Mosk, Spring Street, Long Beach, Van Nuys, Pomona, and Norwalk.
Call (323) 643-1740. Lines open 24/7. Spanish, Farsi, Armenian, and Russian capable. No fee unless we recover for you.
Q1. How much does it cost to hire Burg & Brock for an LA County personal injury case? Nothing upfront. We work on a contingency fee. Our fee is a percentage of the recovery, paid only if we win or settle the case. The exact percentage is set by written retainer (California Business and Professions Code §6147 requires the contingency fee agreement be in writing and signed). If there is no recovery, you owe us no fee. Case costs (filing fees, expert fees, deposition transcripts, records) are typically advanced by the firm and reimbursed from the recovery.
Q2. How long do I have to file a personal injury lawsuit in Los Angeles County? Two years from the date of injury under CCP §335.1 for most claims. Six months to file a government tort claim under Gov Code §911.2 if a public entity is involved (LA Metro, LADOT, City of LA, LA County, LAUSD, Cal State, UC). Minors generally have until age 20 (two years after turning 18), with exceptions. Some product-liability and toxic-exposure claims trigger discovery-rule tolling. Do not guess. Call.
Q3. What if the other driver was uninsured? California requires only $15,000 / $30,000 in bodily injury liability, the lowest end of the range nationally. Lots of LA County drivers carry the minimum or drive uninsured. If you have uninsured motorist (UM) or underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage on your own policy, that coverage steps in. We pursue both the at-fault driver and your own UM/UIM carrier. We have also pursued employer liability in cases where the at-fault driver was on the job.
Q4. The accident was partly my fault. Can I still recover? Yes. California uses pure comparative negligence (Civ Code §1714, Li v. Yellow Cab). Even if a jury finds you 80% at fault, you can recover 20% of your damages from the other party. The threshold is not “majority fault.” It is any fault. Don’t let the insurance adjuster talk you out of a claim by overstating your share.
Q5. Where will my case be filed if it goes to court? Venue depends on where the cause of action arose and the defendant’s residence. Most LA County PI cases file at Stanley Mosk (downtown). Personal Injury Hub cases route through Spring Street. South Bay and Gateway cases often file at Long Beach or Norwalk. San Fernando Valley cases file at Van Nuys. We choose venue strategically when there is a choice. Jury pool composition is part of that decision.
Q6. What if I was hit by an Uber or Lyft driver? Coverage depends on the driver’s app state at the moment of impact. App off, personal auto policy applies (low limits, typical denials). App on, no ride accepted, Uber/Lyft contingent coverage of $50K/$100K BI. Ride accepted or passenger in vehicle, $1M liability per accident. We pull the trip data from Uber/Lyft directly through a preservation letter, then a subpoena if needed.
Q7. I was hit by a Metro bus. Is that case different? Yes. LA Metro is a public entity. You must file a government tort claim within six months of the date of injury under Gov Code §911.2. Metro will deny most claims out of habit. After denial (or 45-day deemed-denial), you have six months under Gov Code §945.6 to file the lawsuit. The combined timing (six months to claim, then six months after denial to file) is shorter and unforgiving compared to a private-defendant case. Don’t sit on it.
Q8. The insurance company offered me a settlement. Should I take it? Probably not, at least not yet. The first offer is almost always a fraction of the case value. The insurer counts on you taking the check while you are still treating and before the full extent of damages is documented. Once you sign a release, the case is over. Even if you find out three months later you need surgery. Talk to a lawyer before you sign.
Q9. What if I don’t have health insurance and can’t afford treatment? We connect injured clients with physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists, MRI providers, and surgeons who treat on a medical lien. They get paid from the recovery. You get treated now. The lien is then negotiated down at settlement. This is one reason it is worth calling early rather than trying to tough it out without care. Gaps in treatment hurt the case file.
Q10. How long does an LA County personal injury case take to resolve? A clear-liability soft-tissue case can settle in 4 to 8 months from the date of injury, often without filing suit. A disputed-liability case or a serious-injury case with significant treatment can run 12 to 24 months. If we file at Mosk or Spring Street, the LA County Superior PI Hub usually targets a trial date 12 to 18 months out, with arbitration or mediation in between. The honest answer for any specific case is: we work to resolve it as fast as the medical picture and the insurer’s posture allow, and we don’t push a premature settlement that undersells the case.
By Cameron Yadidi Brock, Founding Attorney · California State Bar #183112 · Verify · Reviewed May 28, 2026.
Cameron has practiced personal injury and civil litigation in Los Angeles County since 2003. He has tried cases to verdict at Stanley Mosk, Long Beach, Van Nuys, and Pomona Superior. Member, Consumer Attorneys of California. Member, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA).
Call (323) 643-1740, 24/7. Free consultation. No fee unless we recover for you. Beverly Hills office serving all 88 cities of Los Angeles County.
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