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About Frantz Law Group

Frantz Law Group is a San Diego-based personal injury and mass tort firm with more than 47 years of experience in complex litigation, including wildfire cases, product liability, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury. The firm has recovered over $15.5 billion for clients across California and nationally, including landmark settlements against PG&E and Southern California Edison on behalf of thousands of wildfire victims.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Frantz Law Group

$13.5 billionSettlement

Frantz Law Group, representing roughly 5,000 victims, helped negotiate a $13.5 billion PG&E bankruptcy settlement covering tens of thousands of survivors and families from the 2015 Butte, 2017 North Bay, and 2018 Camp wildfires.

U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of California · 2020Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$1.7 billionSettlement

Frantz Law Group, led by attorneys James Frantz and William Shinoff, represented nearly 1,000 public school districts across 38 states in multidistrict litigation against JUUL Labs, reaching a $1.7 billion settlement in 2023 that covered approximately 1,600 school districts, local governments, tribal entities, and individual consumers.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (MDL) · 2023Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$800 millionSettlement

Frantz Law Group secured a share of an up-to-$800 million settlement with MGM Resorts International on behalf of 199 victims of the October 2017 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting, one of the largest mass-casualty compensation funds in U.S. history.

Federal Court (multi-district) · 2019Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$223 million (verdict; reversed on appeal and confidentially settled)Verdict

A San Diego jury awarded $223 million to a securities broker whose malpractice attorney had allowed his fraud claims against Prudential Securities to be silently released in a class action settlement, with James P. Frantz representing the broker in the ensuing litigation.

San Diego Superior Court · 1998Read the full story →
$12.5 million

San Diego Superior Court Judge Ronald Styn ordered Cytodyne Technologies to pay $12.5 million in restitution to California consumers of the ephedra weight-loss supplement Xenadrine RFA-1, finding the company had misrepresented and suppressed scientific research in its marketing.

San Diego Superior Court · 2003Product LiabilityRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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Attorneys at Frantz Law Group

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