About Jerome Bellotti

Jerome Bellotti, Esq. is a Trial Attorney at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc. specializing in representing individuals and families against insurance companies. He brings extensive courtroom experience, having taken 18 cases to verdict.

Before joining Harris, Bellotti served as a trial attorney at Stratman, Schwartz and Williams-Abrego from 2013 to 2020, and previously was a post-bar legal intern at Santa Clara County Superior Court in 2012. He brings background in both defense and plaintiff litigation.

Bellotti has been recognized as Harris Personal Injury Lawyers' Trial Attorney of the Year in 2024 and 2025, was selected for the Farmers Insurance Exchange Advanced Trial Advocacy Program in 2018, and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum (limited to fewer than 1% of U.S. attorneys). He is a member of the William A. Ingram Inns of Court.

He earned his Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis. He is admitted to the State Bar of California.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc.

These results are credited to Harris Personal Injury Lawyers, Inc.. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$21.5 millionSettlement

David Long tripped on two inches of exposed trolley track left by construction grinding crews at the 12th and Imperial MTS station and suffered a spinal cord injury that left him quadriplegic; the case settled for $21.5 million.

San Diego County Superior Court, Central Justice Center · 2015Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$13.28 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2009 · #18

A Tulare County jury awarded $13,284,363 to a nineteen-year-old Farmersville woman who suffered permanent traumatic brain injury and hemiparesis when a multi-vehicle chain-reaction crash sent an oncoming car into her lane.

Tulare County Superior Court (Visalia, CA) · 2009Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.59 millionVerdict

A San Luis Obispo County jury awarded $6,709,300 to the family of Tricia Rittger, a KSBY sales manager who was struck and killed by an SUV while crossing Shell Beach Road to reach The Cliffs Resort, after the firm proved the resort had violated its own parking policy and a city-issued operating permit.

San Luis Obispo County Superior Court · 2014Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Santa Clara University School of Law
Juris Doctor (J.D.)
University of California, Davis
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California
Million Dollar Advocates Forum
William A. Ingram Inns of Court

Awards & recognition

Harris Personal Injury Lawyers Trial Attorney of the Year (2024, 2025)
Farmers Insurance Exchange Advanced Trial Advocacy Program (2018)

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Estey & Bomberger
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Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire
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Frantz Law Group
$13.5 billion · PG&E Wildfire Bankruptcy: $13.5 Billion Settlement for Northern California Fire Victims

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