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Roger A. Dreyer

Roger A. Dreyer

Sacramento, CAAdmitted 1980
Car AccidentsWorkplace InjuryProduct LiabilityWrongful Death

About Roger A. Dreyer

Backed by a lifetime of personal and professional experience, no one is better suited to handle the complex nature of serious injury cases than Roger Dreyer. Throughout his distinguished career, Mr. Dreyer has honed his skill in the courtroom and is now recognized as one of California's premier trial attorneys. To date, he has tried over 200 plaintiff civil jury trials in 20 California counties and out-of-state. He has represented thousands of families and individuals who have suffered immeasurable loss. He has obtained record setting seven- and eight-figure jury verdicts in actions that include product liability, construction events, public entity, brain injury, wrongful death and the list goes on. Most importantly, he has effectively redefined the standards of conduct expected of corporations and individual actors. Due to his work and reputation he has also been sought out by professional sports teams, the then Oakland Raiders and the Sacramento Kings, to represent them in serious litigation matters. A History of Landmark Cases Mr. Dreyer's breadth of work in the field of personal injury law knows no bounds, and his success rate speaks to the formidable force he brings to the courtroom. His winning record includes landmark legislation like the following: $34 Million in the Largest Fraud Verdict in Sacramento County History . Personally sought by the owners of the Oakland Raiders, Mr. Dreyer served as trial counsel in the case against the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum and other defendants, which resulted in a finding of fraud that is now recognized as the largest business fraud verdict in Sacramento County history. ; $31 Million & $75 Million Against MasterCraft Boats & Ford Motor Company, Respectively . In both defective product cases, Mr. Dreyer brought to light information that empowered juries to rule on the dangerous products from these companies, which, until the time of the verdicts, had been proclaimed as flaw-free and safe for consumer use.

Notable case results

$73 millionVerdict

A Sacramento jury ordered Ford to pay $73 million, including $50 million in punitive damages, after a tire tread separation caused a 15-passenger van to roll four times on Interstate 5, killing two Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church members and injuring two others.

Sacramento Superior Court · 2011Read the full story →
$30.9 millionVerdict

A Butte County jury held MasterCraft 80 percent liable for a design defect that caused the bow of a fully loaded X45 wakeboarding boat to submerge on Lake Oroville, throwing Niki Bell into the propeller and permanently destroying her left eye and part of her frontal lobe.

Butte County Superior Court · 2011Read the full story →
$16.6 millionVerdict

A Sacramento jury awarded $16,577,118 to the family of Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old mother of three who died of water intoxication after competing in KDND radio's 'Hold Your Wee for a Wii' contest -- at the time the largest wrongful-death verdict in Sacramento County.

Sacramento Superior Court · 2009Read the full story →
$6.5 millionVerdict

A Sacramento jury awarded $6,471,242 to the widow of a 33-year-old sheriff's deputy killed while riding his motorcycle through a poorly configured highway construction zone managed by the State of California and Granite Construction, the largest wrongful-death verdict in Sacramento County at the time.

Sacramento County Superior Court · 1998Read the full story →
$34 MillionVerdict

In the Largest Fraud Verdict in Sacramento County History

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$31 Million

& $75 Million Against MasterCraft Boats & Ford Motor Company, Respectively

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$16.7 Million

In Water Intoxication Death Case

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$15 MillionSettlement

For the Wrongful Death of a 12-Year Old

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$10 MillionVerdict

Against Commercial Defendant

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Car Accidents
Workplace Injury
Product Liability
Wrongful Death

Education

University of California, Hastings College of the Law
J.D.
University of California
Undergraduate, 1977

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 1980

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