About Robert Jarchi
Robert D. Jarchi focuses on catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, environmental litigation, and wildfire cases. He filed one of the first wrongful death lawsuits arising from the Eaton Fire against Southern California Edison and is the only attorney who represented family members of every person who died in the Woolsey Fire. He also represents plaintiffs affected by the Maui/Lahaina wildfires. In 2023 alone he obtained over $100 million for clients in under 100 days, including a $49 million wrongful death settlement and a $45 million confidential settlement.
Among his verdicts is a $33 million verdict in Gousse v. Budget Rent-A-Car/City of Los Angeles, a $7.9 million fraud verdict in Farraj v. Circle K Stores, and a $4.7 million verdict for the electrocution of a migrant worker. He was lead counsel in the Erin Brockovich-related Hinkley groundwater contamination cases. He received his B.A. from UCLA (1996) and his J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (1999).
Proven verdicts and settlements at Greene Broillet & Wheeler
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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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