Taylor Gaines
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About Taylor Gaines
Taylor Gaines is a Senior Trial Attorney at Batta Fulkerson Law Group. A San Diego native, he earned a Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State University in 2008 and a Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in 2012. He was admitted to the California bar in 2012. After law school, Gaines spent more than five years at the San Diego Public Defender's Office, where he completed over 50 jury trials on matters ranging from misdemeanors to homicides.
He then moved to civil plaintiff work, bringing his trial experience to personal injury litigation at Batta Fulkerson. His practice focuses on car accidents, general personal injury, and courtroom litigation, and he has completed 51 jury trial cases. The firm was voted the top personal injury firm in San Diego by the San Diego Union Tribune.
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A painter was injured in March 2019 when an Oakwood Worldwide van made an illegal U-turn in Ventura County, and he later needed a C5-C6 cervical fusion. After a seven-day trial, a jury returned $10,024,171 following one day of deliberation in February 2025. The firm reports that the case then resolved after the verdict for $7.5 million.
A Ventura County jury awarded $10 million after a corporate van driver executed an illegal U-turn into a painter's path, leaving him needing a cervical fusion four years later; the case settled for $7.5 million when the defense's life care planner admitted on cross-examination to using ChatGPT for her cost estimates.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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