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 Steven Mazza
Steven Lance Mazza is a dedicated personal injury lawyer at Carpenter & Zuckerman, committed to compassionately advocating on behalf of his injured clients and securing the full compensation they deserve. Having lost his son due to the negligence of a drunk driver, Steve is familiar with the pain that injury victims and their families must endure. This tragic experience allows him to better understand and explain his clients’ pain and suffering to juries. Steve has over three decades of experience successfully representing injury victims against the insurance companies that seek to take advantage of them.
Steve has extensive jury experience, having taken over 125 cases to trial. He has also served as lead appellate counsel on Lopez v. Southern California Rapid Transit District , a landmark California Supreme Court case in which he successfully argued that bus companies have a duty to protect passengers from their co-passengers’ criminal activities. Steve considers himself a student of the Civil Discovery Act and prides himself on his ability to win cases on the paper.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Carpenter & Zuckerman
These results are credited to Carpenter & Zuckerman. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
