About Carpenter & Zuckerman
Carpenter & Zuckerman is a California personal injury law firm founded in 1995 by John Carpenter and Paul Zuckerman. With more than 40 attorneys across offices in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, and Bakersfield, the firm has recovered over $3 billion for injured clients across more than 20,000 cases.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Carpenter & Zuckerman
A San Luis Obispo jury awarded $74.5 million to the family of a girl who was born with cerebral palsy in April 2009 after her obstetrician failed to respond to deteriorating fetal heart-rate tracings and did not order emergency delivery at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center.
A Los Angeles jury awarded $45 million to the four children of Claudia Fernandez after a drunk driver, whose vehicle owner negligently handed over her keys, struck and killed her at a Boyle Heights taco truck in 2012.
A Riverside jury awarded $40 million to the parents of Orlando Jordan after finding that TGI Friday's and its franchise operator bore 55 percent of the responsibility for his death, having repeatedly served alcohol to a visibly intoxicated underage patron who then stabbed Jordan inside the restaurant.
A Newport Beach hotel guest fell two stories from a balcony with a railing eight inches below California building code height, suffered a skull fracture and catastrophic traumatic brain injury, and an Orange County jury returned a $38,628,127 verdict against the hotel in 2012.
A San Diego jury awarded $9,117,715 to Regina Hampton after she slipped on water leaking from an out-of-service ADA bathroom at the AMC theater in Poway and developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, a chronic pain condition requiring a spinal cord stimulator and Ketamine infusions.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
Attorneys at Carpenter & Zuckerman
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