Brenon Harbin

A San Bernardino County jury awarded $18 million to two sisters whose insurer offered just $5,000 to repair a home rendered uninhabitable by flood damage, with $12 million of the award in punitive damages against the insurer and its parent company.

A painter was injured in March 2019 when an Oakwood Worldwide van made an illegal U-turn in Ventura County, and he later needed a C5-C6 cervical fusion. After a seven-day trial, a jury returned $10,024,171 following one day of deliberation in February 2025. The firm reports that the case then resolved after the verdict for $7.5 million.

San Diego County paid $1 million to the family of Ivan Ortiz, a 26-year-old with schizophrenia who died by suicide in Central Jail the day after staff documented a prior attempt and failed to remove the item he used to take his life.