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About Steven Messner
Steven Messner is a civil trial attorney at McGee Lerer Ogrin in California, with over 15 years of experience. He has successfully recovered millions through verdicts, judgments, and settlements. His practice focuses on personal injury, insurance coverage, bad-faith claims, fraud, and class action lawsuits.
Messner earned his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley, where he was an All-American swimmer, and his Juris Doctor from the University of La Verne College of Law, where he was Valedictorian and Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.
He is admitted to the California State Bar.
Messner is rated by Super Lawyers in Southern California for Personal Injury - General practice.
Proven verdicts and settlements at McGee Lerer Ogrin
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McGee Lerer Ogrin represented 14 of the 124 survivors whose claims were resolved in a $122.5 million settlement with the City of Santa Monica over decades of child sexual abuse by a PAL volunteer the city failed to stop.
In a landmark April 2023 ruling, California's Second District Court of Appeal reversed dismissal of a pedestrian trip-and-fall lawsuit, holding that Bird Rides owes a general duty of ordinary care over its dock-less scooters and can be sued when improperly parked scooters injure members of the public.
In November 2019, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge overruled demurrers filed by Lyft and the City of Santa Monica, finding that an 88-year-old woman who sustained five pelvic fractures after tripping over a Lyft scooter in a posted no-deployment zone had stated viable negligence and public-nuisance claims against both defendants.
Catherine Lerer of McGee Lerer, co-counseling with Costell & Cornelius, filed a class action in October 2018 against Bird, Lime, Xiaomi, and Segway on behalf of riders and pedestrians seriously injured by dockless e-scooters deployed across Los Angeles.
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