Burg & Brock Bakersfield Office — Personal Injury Attorneys serving Bakersfield and CA
Burg & Brock represents injured people across Bakersfield and the surrounding CA region. Our Bakersfield office handles auto and truck collisions, motorcycle and rideshare cases, wrongful death claims, dog bites, slip and falls, burn injuries, and brain and spinal cord injuries. We work on contingency: no fee unless we recover for you.
Address: 2005 Eye Street Suite 8, Bakersfield, CA 93301
Phone: (888) 528-8595 | Alt: (818) 824-8461
Phone hours: Open 24 hours for phone intake
Office visits: By appointment, Monday through Friday 9 AM to 6 PM
Where we are: Eye Street at 20th, in the downtown Bakersfield legal district one block from the Kern County Superior Courthouse.
Parking: Street parking on Eye Street and 20th. The county courthouse parking structure on Truxtun is open to the public.
SR-99 Golden State Highway, SR-58 / SR-178 (Westside Parkway), I-5 (15 miles west via Stockdale Hwy). Downtown Bakersfield sits one mile east of the 99 and three miles north of the 58.
Kern County runs about 920,000 residents and is one of the most car-dependent metros in California. SR-99 through Bakersfield carries over 130,000 vehicles per day and is consistently among the top California freeways for fatal collisions per mile. Oilfield trucks, agricultural equipment, and long-haul Central Valley freight share the road with commuters — a mix that produces a higher rate of catastrophic truck collisions than most California metros.
Our Bakersfield attorneys take the same cases the firm has built its reputation on across California:
Bakersfield is the firm's Central Valley anchor for Kern County clients. We handle SR-99 truck cases, agricultural-equipment collisions, and oilfield-related vehicle injuries from this office. Our team appears regularly in the Kern County Superior Court on Truxtun Avenue, two blocks from our Eye Street office.
Burg & Brock's attorneys serve clients across all seven offices rather than being tied to a single location. Our roster includes Cameron Yadidi Brock (founder, catastrophic injury and product defect), Craig D. Rackohn (senior trial attorney, insurance bad faith), Lena G. Karaminassian (pre-litigation department), Greg Diarian (senior trial, former Mercury Insurance counsel), Isaac Radnia (auto, slip and fall, dog bite), and Artin Fiterz (trucking, catastrophic motor vehicle, defense crossover). Your case is assigned based on the case type, not the office.
California's general personal injury statute of limitations is two years from the date of the injury. Claims against a public entity (a city, county, or state agency) require a written government claim within six months. Wrongful death cases follow the same two-year general window. The clock starts on the date the injury occurred — not the date you finished medical treatment.
If the other driver carries no insurance, your recovery usually depends on your own uninsured / underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage. We pull every applicable policy on day one — your own auto, household members' auto policies, umbrella policies, and any commercial coverage if the at-fault driver was working when the crash occurred.
Nothing up front. We work on a contingency fee — our fee is a percentage of the recovery, paid only if we win. We also front the case costs: investigators, expert witnesses, deposition fees, accident-reconstruction reports. If we don't recover, you owe us nothing.
Most personal injury cases involving a Bakersfield crash are filed in Kern County Superior Court — Metropolitan Justice Building (1415 Truxtun Ave, two blocks from our office). Cases against a national defendant or with multi-county facts are sometimes filed in federal court (the Central or Eastern District of California, depending on geography) when diversity jurisdiction applies.
The closest trauma-capable facilities to our Bakersfield office are Kern Medical (Kern County's safety-net trauma center) and Bakersfield Memorial Hospital. We routinely work with treating physicians at these hospitals to obtain medical records, billing, and treating-physician declarations.
California uses pure comparative negligence. Even if you're found 80 percent at fault, you can still recover 20 percent of your damages. The defense will argue your share was higher — our job is to keep the percentage assigned to you as low as the evidence supports.
Most cases settle before trial. We prepare every case as if it's headed to a jury — that's how we get full settlement value — but the majority resolve at mediation or in pre-trial negotiation. If your case does go to trial, our trial attorneys handle it.
We do not charge hourly. Our compensation is a contingency percentage of the recovery, set in writing at the start of your case.
A clear-liability soft-tissue case can resolve in six to nine months. A catastrophic case with disputed liability, expert testimony, and a trial date typically runs 18 to 30 months. We give you a realistic timeline after the first round of medical records and the at-fault party's policy disclosures come back.
No — and you should not. Once you retain us, the at-fault carrier communicates with our office, not with you. Recorded statements are routinely used to limit a claim's value, and there is no legal duty for you to give one to the other side's insurer.
California allows recovery for past and future medical expenses, past and future lost earnings, lost earning capacity, property damage, pain and suffering, and emotional distress. Cases involving conduct that meets the legal standard for malice, oppression, or fraud may also support punitive damages.
Yes. Our intake team and several of our case managers are bilingual in Spanish. We also publish Spanish-language versions of our practice-area pages so clients and family members can review information in their primary language.
Get medical attention even if you feel okay — adrenaline masks injury for hours and sometimes days. Photograph the scene, the vehicles, and any visible injuries. Get the other driver's insurance and license information. Do not give a recorded statement to any insurer. Then call us — early evidence preservation matters more than people realize.
If you were hurt in Bakersfield or anywhere in CA, the case review is free and there is no obligation. We answer calls 24 hours a day.
Call (888) 528-8595 | Or send a message
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Beyond SR-99, SR-58, and SR-178, the SR-43 corridor west of the city moves a steady share of ag-truck and oilfield traffic that shows up in our intake calls. Cases also come in from Oildale, Seven Oaks, Westchester, and East Bakersfield. We accept matters across the Bakersfield ZIP range — 93301-93314. The city falls inside area code 661.
Local conditions worth flagging: tule fog can collapse visibility on SR-99 in winter to under 100 feet, and the oilfield- and ag-truck traffic on the Westside Parkway and SR-43 stays heavy year-round. If the case ends up filed, the venue is the Kern County Superior Court Metropolitan Division at 1415 Truxtun Avenue.
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