Similar personal injury attorneys in Beverly Hills
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
About Joseph Schwar
Joseph Schwar is a skilled litigator with over two decades of experience. Joseph’s practice has included pursuing damages for individuals who have sustained injury due to another’s negligence and securing the compensation they need to get back on their feet. Prior to joining Carpenter & Zuckerman in 2022, Joseph worked for over sixteen years with boutique law firm Peterson Law Group, where he managed eminent domain and inverse condemnation litigation, and appellate work on behalf of owners of real property and businesses taken and damaged by public projects. During that time, Joseph obtained a published opinion from the California Supreme Court (Weiss v. People ex rel.
Dep’t of Transp. (2020) 9 Cal. 5th 840) to overturn prior law that had allowed public agencies to bring a Dina Legal Issues Motion to summarily defeat inverse condemnation claims without satisfying procedural protections that must be met in order to support a true Motion for Summary Adjudication.
As an attorney, Joseph has also successfully represented numerous clients whose properties were damaged by landslides, land subsidence, or debris flow. Joseph is well-versed in matters pertinent not only to litigation of personal injury claims but also to bad faith claims against insurers, environmental contamination and remediation, commercial transactions, and even oil and gas leases. Education Joseph attended the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology and Cognitiv
Proven verdicts and settlements at Carpenter & Zuckerman
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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.
In September 2013 a Los Angeles County MTA maintenance van rear-ended a stalled Honda on the Santa Monica Freeway, and both vehicles caught fire. The driver, Xian Hui Lin, 56, died four days later. The MTA admitted responsibility, and a Los Angeles Superior Court jury in March 2016 awarded his widow and two adult children $8.36 million in damages. The parties then settled and waived appeal.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
