Beverly Hills Personal Injury Attorneys
If someone else’s carelessness left you injured in Beverly Hills, the Law Offices of Burg & Brock can look at what happened, tell you whether there is a claim worth pursuing, and handle it from there. The first conversation costs nothing and you are not committing to anything by having it.
Free consultation. The firm works on a contingency fee, so attorney’s fees are charged out of a recovery rather than up front. Ask how fees and case costs are handled before you decide anything.
Beverly Hills · Los Angeles County, California
A personal injury claim generally turns on four things: someone owed you a duty of reasonable care, they fell short of it, that failure caused your injury, and the injury cost you something — treatment, income, or the ability to do things you could do before. Those elements are not identical in every case, and how they are proved depends on the facts.
You do not need to have worked any of that out before you call. Most people who contact a firm are not sure whether what happened to them counts, and that uncertainty is normal rather than a reason to wait.
What generally has to be shown
A duty of care
That the other party owed you a legal responsibility to act reasonably.
A failure to meet it
Something they did, or did not do, that fell short of that responsibility.
Causation
That the failure is what produced the injury, rather than something unrelated.
Losses the law recognises
Treatment, income, or the effect on what you are able to do.
These elements are not identical in every type of claim, and how each is proved depends on the facts.
Things people worry about
None of these ends a claim by itself. What they affect is how much has to be reconstructed later — which is the practical reason to ask early, not a legal one.
The firm does personal injury work and not much else. That focus is the honest reason to consider it: the questions that decide an injury claim — who was responsible, what the evidence supports, what the losses actually are — are the questions it deals with daily.
Which attorney or staff member works on a particular matter depends on the case. Ask who your point of contact will be when you speak to the firm.
Beverly Hills injuries are not only traffic collisions. These are the areas the firm works in, each with a page explaining how that type of claim is handled.
What can be claimed depends on the facts and the law that applies. These are the categories that usually come up, not a menu and not a prediction.
Medical expenses
Treatment already received, from the emergency visit through to physiotherapy and specialist care.
Future care
Treatment the injury will still require, which often is not clear until recovery has settled into a pattern.
Lost earnings
Income lost while unable to work, proved from payroll, tax or platform records depending on how you earn.
Reduced earning capacity
Where an injury changes what you are able to do for a living, not just what you missed.
Pain and suffering
Non-economic loss. There is no formula that produces a figure, and anyone quoting one is guessing.
Property damage
Vehicle or belongings, which usually travels on a separate and faster track from the injury claim.
A wrongful death claim is measured differently from an injured person’s own claim, and the people entitled to bring it are defined by statute. If a death is involved, that is a conversation to have directly rather than from a page.
No responsible case value can be worked out from a location or a diagnosis alone.
It depends on who is responsible and whether that is disputed, any share of fault attributed to you, how severe the injury is, the treatment already had and the care still ahead, income lost, any effect on earning capacity, the insurance and assets actually available, and how well the evidence stands up.
Anyone who gives you a figure before those are known is guessing, and a guess is worth nothing to you. What a firm can do early is tell you which of those questions look straightforward and which look contested.
Five stages, in the order they happen.
Free consultation
What happened, what injuries, what has already been said to an insurer.
Investigation and evidence
Reports, footage, witnesses and records, gathered while they still exist.
Evaluating the losses
Treatment received, care still ahead, income affected, and what cannot be measured in receipts.
Negotiation
Presenting the claim to the insurers involved and answering what they dispute.
Litigation where appropriate
Filing suit where a claim cannot be resolved on acceptable terms. Whether a case resolves or is tried depends on its facts.
General guidance, not a checklist you have to complete before contacting anyone.
Evidence has
a shelf life.
You do not need any of this to call. Bring what you have. Obtaining the rest is part of the work, and it is not something you are expected to assemble on your own while injured.
Camera systems overwrite. Memories blur. A damaged vehicle gets repaired or sold. None of that stops a claim being built later — it just means there is less left to find.
Some of what decides a claim exists only for a while. Camera systems overwrite. Memories blur. A damaged vehicle gets repaired or sold. None of that means a later claim cannot be built, but it does mean the earlier someone starts looking, the more there is to find.
Beverly Hills is its own incorporated city, and unlike much of the surrounding area it has its own police department. A collision or incident inside the city limits is generally handled by the Beverly Hills Police Department rather than the Los Angeles Police Department, and that is who holds the report afterwards.
That matters for a practical reason rather than a legal one: knowing which agency attended tells you where the request goes. Requesting from the wrong agency is a common way people lose several weeks early on.
The Beverly Hills Police Department publishes how to request a traffic collision report, and the records and traffic bureaus are listed separately on the city’s own site.
Which agency responded depends on where and how something happened. If an incident took place on a state route or outside the city boundary, another agency may hold the report instead. If you are not sure who attended, that is something we can establish.
There is often no police report at all after a fall in a shop, a restaurant, a hotel or a parking structure. What exists instead is whatever the business recorded: an incident form, a manager’s note, a maintenance log, and camera footage that may not be kept for long.
Asking for a copy of the incident report at the time, and photographing the condition that caused the fall before it is cleaned or repaired, is worth more later than almost anything else.
Where you live does not decide whether you have a claim. People are injured in Beverly Hills while working, shopping, visiting or passing through, and a case can be handled without you being local to it.
For office visiting details, see the Beverly Hills office page.
2 years*
California Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 sets two years for an action for injury to, or the death of, an individual caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another.
The asterisk is doing real work. That period is not the only clock that can apply to an injury, and several situations run on different timing.
Where a public entity may be involved, Government Code section 911.2 requires a claim for death or injury to a person to be presented not later than six months after the cause of action accrues. That is substantially shorter than two years, and it applies before any lawsuit is filed. If a city, a transit body, a school district or another public entity might be responsible, get advice sooner rather than later.
Other situations that can follow different timing include injuries to minors, injuries that are not discovered until later, and medical malpractice. Which rule applies to a particular injury is a question about that injury’s facts, and it is one of the first things worth asking rather than assuming.
Shared responsibility is a separate question from deadlines. California reduces a recovery by a claimant’s share of fault rather than barring the claim outright, but how fault is apportioned depends on the evidence and is frequently disputed.
The firm handles injury claims on a contingency fee. In plain terms, the attorney’s fee is a share of a recovery rather than an hourly bill, and if there is no recovery there is no attorney’s fee.
Fees and case costs are two separate things, and it is worth being clear about that before signing anything. Costs are the expenses of running a case — obtaining records, filing fees, expert work. Ask how costs are handled if a case does not resolve, and ask for it in writing. A firm that will not explain that plainly is telling you something.
The consultation itself is free, and having one does not oblige you to bring a claim.
What to bring to a consultation
If you have none of it, come anyway. This is a list of what helps, not a list of requirements.
Licensed in California
since June 1996.
The record, and how to check it
Every California attorney has a public licence record showing status, admission date and any discipline. You do not have to take a website’s word for it — on this firm or any other.
Meet the lawyer
Cameron Yadidi Brock is the founding attorney of the Law Offices of Burg & Brock, A Professional Law Corporation, and is responsible for the content of this page. He has been licensed to practise law in California since June 1996.
His practice is injury work: motor vehicle collisions, premises injuries, catastrophic injury and wrongful death. The firm does not spread itself across unrelated areas of law, and that focus is the reason to consider it rather than a slogan.
Which attorney or staff member works on a particular matter depends on the case. Ask who your point of contact will be when you speak to the firm.
Generally it comes down to whether someone else’s failure to take reasonable care caused an injury that cost you something. You do not have to work that out yourself; describing what happened is usually enough for a first conversation.
Injury claims are handled on a contingency fee, so the attorney’s fee comes out of a recovery rather than up front, and there is no attorney’s fee without one. Case costs are separate from fees — ask how those are treated before you sign.
California reduces a recovery by your share of responsibility rather than ending the claim. How that share is decided depends on the evidence, and an insurer’s early view of it is not the final word.
Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 sets two years for an injury action, but that is not the only clock. Where a public entity may be responsible, Government Code section 911.2 requires a claim within six months. Injuries to minors, injuries discovered later and medical malpractice can follow different timing.
Yes. Not having a report is common, particularly after a fall on private property where no police attended. Obtaining it is part of the work.
Whatever you already have: a report number, letters from an insurer, photographs, and where you were treated. If you have none of it, the conversation is still worth having.
No. An initial conversation can happen by phone, and a case can be handled without you travelling. Visiting details are on the Beverly Hills office page.
Mostly the medical picture. A claim is difficult to value while treatment is ongoing and the full extent of an injury is still unclear. Disputed fault and multiple insurers also add time. Nobody can tell you a date at the outset.
Yes. Where you live does not decide where a claim is brought or whether it can be pursued.
Free case review
Tell us what happened and we can tell you whether there is a claim worth pursuing, what it would involve and what the next step is. There is no charge for the conversation and no obligation after it.
Submitting a form or calling does not create an attorney-client relationship. Please do not send confidential information until a relationship has been established in writing.
Beverly Hills · Los Angeles County · California State Bar No. 183112
What happens when you get in touch
Prefer to speak to someone now? Call (888) 528-8595. You do not need a report, photographs or paperwork to have the first conversation.
Attorney Advertising. This page is provided by the Law Offices of Burg & Brock, A Professional Law Corporation. Cameron Yadidi Brock, California State Bar No. 183112, is responsible for its content.
The information here is general, describes California law as of September 2026, and is not legal advice for any particular situation. Whether any rule described on this page applies to a specific injury depends on its facts. Reading this page or contacting the firm through it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Statutory references: Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1; Government Code section 911.2.
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