About Aaron Osten
Aaron Osten focuses on employee rights in harassment and whistleblower retaliation cases, as well as wrongful death, business litigation, and sexual abuse matters. He has secured more than $100 million for his clients. He obtained a $12.2 million jury verdict for a woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury after slipping down a concrete staircase in Hermosa Beach. With Partner Mark Quigley, he obtained a $2.1 million verdict and $3.2 million in attorney's fees in a whistleblower retaliation case against Los Angeles County for a vascular surgeon who exposed surgical kickbacks.
He obtained a $7 million verdict in a high-profile sexual harassment and wrongful termination case involving celebrity yoga guru Bikram Choudhury. He attended San Diego State University (B.A. in English, with Honors) and Loyola Law School (J.D.). Outside the courtroom he teaches surfing to U.S. veterans with PTSD and is a ten-time Catalina Classic Paddleboard finisher.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Greene Broillet & Wheeler
These results are credited to Greene Broillet & Wheeler. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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