Cerri, Boskovich & Allard

A Santa Clara County jury awarded $65 million to one of two plaintiffs, $102.5 million in total, against Union School District after finding it failed for years to act on repeated warnings about music teacher Samuel Neipp's sexual abuse of students at Dartmouth Middle School.

A Monterey County jury returned an $18.7 million verdict against Caltrans and a trucking company after finding the state had ignored three decades of its own data showing that the left-turn configuration on Highway 156 made the road one of California's most dangerous corridors.

Evergreen School District paid $15 million to four families whose second-grade daughters were sexually molested by teacher Craig Chandler at O.B. Whaley Elementary School in San Jose.

An Alameda County jury returned a $13.7 million verdict for the families of three San Jose workers whose Honda was struck head-on by a commercial truck after two other big rigs set off a chain-reaction crash inside a dense tule fog bank on State Route 152 in November 2012.

A Marin County jury found Tamalpais Union High School District 100% negligent for its PE teacher and tennis coach's 2003 sexual abuse of a student, awarding the survivor $10 million, a verdict the district failed to overturn on appeal.

Morgan Hill Unified School District paid $8.25 million to three families after their daughters were molested by teacher John Loyd over two school years, with the district agreeing to mandatory predator-identification training for all staff.

A developmentally disabled college student won a $7.6 million settlement after Raymond Ruiz, an instructional aide in Mission College's disability program, sexually assaulted her on campus in May 2020 while the district ignored longstanding warning signs about his conduct.

Twin Rivers Unified School District agreed in August 2025 to pay $6 million to a former Del Paso Heights Elementary student who said a teacher sexually abused her when she was a sixth grader. Her suit, filed in early 2023, alleged the district failed to properly screen and supervise the teacher. He pleaded guilty in February 2025 to nine counts of lewd acts upon a child and was sentenced to 215 years to life. Lauren Cerri represented the former student.

The Campbell Union High School District agreed in December 2025 to pay $5.75 million to a woman who said her Leigh High School teacher and football coach sexually abused her in 2002 and 2003, when she was 15. Her April 2024 lawsuit alleged the school's dean, the teacher's wife, was told of the abuse and did nothing. Lauren Cerri represented the former student.

A Sonoma County jury found Becoming Independent, a Santa Rosa care nonprofit, negligent in hiring and supervising an in-home caregiver accused of sexually assaulting a 53-year-old man with the mental capacity of a five-year-old. The jury set total damages at $6 million and assigned 80 percent of fault to the agency, about $4.8 million. The caregiver's 20 percent share is moot because of his bankruptcy. The agency says it is evaluating appellate review.