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About Greene Broillet & Wheeler

Greene Broillet & Wheeler, LLP is a Los Angeles-area plaintiffs' trial firm founded in 1973 that represents clients in catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, product liability, medical malpractice, employment, and business litigation. The firm has recovered billions of dollars for clients, including a landmark $4.9 billion General Motors verdict and a $55 million jury award in the Erin Andrews hotel privacy case.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Greene Broillet & Wheeler

Acting as outside trial counsel for Los Angeles County, the firm then known as Greene, Broillet, Taylor, Wheeler and Panish helped recover approximately $3.3 billion for the county through the 1998 nationwide Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

Los Angeles, California (multi-state negotiation) · 1998Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$1.2 billionVerdictTop 20 in California · #7

A Los Angeles jury ordered General Motors to pay $4.9 billion after a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu's rear-mounted fuel tank ruptured and burned six occupants in a rear-end crash, the largest US personal-injury verdict at the time.

Los Angeles, CA (LA County Superior Court) · 1999Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$73 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2011 · #5

A Sacramento jury awarded $73 million, including $50 million in punitive damages, after a Goodyear tire tread separation caused a Ford E-350 church van to flip four times on I-5, killing two passengers and injuring two others.

Sacramento Superior Court · 2011Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$58 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2004 · #6

A Los Angeles jury awarded $58,137,361 to a construction worker who suffered third-degree burns over 75 percent of his body when a defective O-ring on a Caterpillar scraper caused flammable hydraulic fluid to spray onto a hot engine, producing what was then the largest single-plaintiff personal-injury verdict in California history.

Los Angeles Superior Court · 2004Product LiabilityRead the full story →

A Davidson County jury awarded Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews $55 million after finding that the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt negligently disclosed her room location to a stalker who altered a peephole to film her without consent.

Davidson County Circuit Court, Nashville, Tennessee · 2016Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$36.1 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2017 · #16

A San Bernardino jury awarded $36.1 million to a child who suffered a traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures after being struck by a car while crossing mid-block to reach her school bus stop, finding Durham School Services 80% liable for failing to prevent the dangerous crossing.

San Bernardino Superior Court · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$33 millionVerdictTop 10 of 2003 · #5

A Haitian-American urological surgeon was subjected to a felony-level takedown on the Santa Monica Freeway after LAPD ran the plates on his rental car and received a stolen-vehicle alert caused by Budget Rent-A-Car's own plate error.

Los Angeles Superior Court · 2003Civil RightsRead the full story →
$15.5 millionVerdict

A San Diego jury awarded $15.5 million after Hyatt hotel staff extended a diabetic guest's reservation without verifying her wellbeing, leaving Cindy Gonzalez uncontacted for nearly a day while she lay comatose between the beds in her room.

San Diego County Superior Court · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$12.02 millionVerdict

A Los Angeles jury found FirstService Residential California LLC vicariously liable for a crash caused by its drunk general manager on State Route 134 in 2013. The passenger's right arm was nearly severed and required about 30 surgeries. The jury set damages at $15,030,718.83 and found the passenger 20 percent at fault, so $12,024,575.06 stood against the company.

Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles · 2017Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$12 millionVerdict

William M. Keck III, 48, died on September 3, 2017 after developing heat exhaustion during a paddle tennis tournament at the Bel-Air Bay Club in Pacific Palisades. Club staff did not call 911 for about three hours. On November 25, 2019, a Santa Monica jury found the club 80 percent at fault and set his mother's damages at $15 million, which comparative fault reduced to $12 million.

Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Santa Monica · 2019Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

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