About Tim Wheeler
Timothy J. Wheeler is the managing partner of Greene Broillet & Wheeler and has extensive trial experience in product liability, general negligence, auto product liability, wrongful termination, employment discrimination, legal malpractice, road design, and insurance bad faith. He has achieved more than 150 verdicts and settlements exceeding one million dollars, including what was then the largest personal injury verdict against the City of Los Angeles and Riverside County's largest verdict for a traumatically brain injured teenage girl. He was named Personal Injury Trial Lawyer of the Year in Los Angeles by Best Lawyers in 2012 and Product Liability Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2013.
He has been listed in 'The Best Lawyers in America' since 1995 and was a three-time finalist for the CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. He authored the landmark California Supreme Court decision in Juarez v. Superior Court (1982) 31 Cal.3d 759, addressing special verdict procedures. He received his B.S. from Santa Clara University (1975) and his J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (1978).
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.
