About Jeoffrey Robinson
Jeoffrey L. Robinson is a partner at Robinson Calcagnie, Inc., where he concentrates on catastrophic injury, product liability, and unfair business practices litigation. He began his career in 1981 as a Deputy District Attorney in Orange County, trying roughly 135 jury trials over twelve years, including 35 murder trials, with a felony conviction rate above 98 percent. His prosecution in People v. David Brown was chronicled in a New York Times bestselling book and an NBC miniseries. He joined his brother Mark P. Robinson Jr. in civil practice in 1993.
His civil results include a $31 million verdict in Anderson v. Snow Valley for a client who lost both legs in a ski lift maintenance accident, one of the largest catastrophic injury verdicts in San Bernardino County history, a $45 million recovery as lead counsel in an unfair business practices class action against The Geneva Companies, co-counsel work on the $4.9 billion Anderson v. General Motors verdict, a $10.6 million defective road design verdict against the State of California, and a $4 million verdict against Dollar Rent-A-Car under a novel employer liability theory. He was named the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association's Personal Injury Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2004. He earned his B.A. from the University of the Pacific and his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Robinson Calcagnie, Inc.
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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.
On September 10, 2013, Faustino Torres Solorio was standing at the tailgate of a truck that had run out of gas and pulled onto the shoulder in San Bernardino County when a car driven by Gunnar Ayala, a parts delivery driver for Nissan of Fontana, struck him. Ayala was cited for an unsafe turning movement, and the officer at the scene concluded Solorio did nothing to cause the crash. He suffered multiple broken bones, deep lacerations, a lacerated spleen and an above-the-knee amputation of his left leg. The dealerships argued Ayala was an independent contractor, or at least outside the course and scope of his job at the moment of the crash. A San Bernardino County Superior Court jury found otherwise and awarded Solorio $46 million on August 9, 2016. No appeal has surfaced in the years since.
On December 12, 2025, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded Deborah Schultz and her husband Albert $22 million after finding that decades of using Johnson's Baby Powder caused her ovarian cancer. The jury found Johnson & Johnson liable for negligence, failure to warn and concealing asbestos risk in its talc products, but declined to award punitive damages. The verdict came in the first bellwether trial of California's coordinated talc litigation, which also awarded a second plaintiff, Monica Kent, $18 million in a case tried alongside the Schultzes'. Dan Robinson of Robinson Calcagnie tried the case for the plaintiffs with Andy Birchfield of Beasley Allen; Johnson & Johnson has said it will appeal.
Gerald Barnett, a retired FBI agent from South Carolina, took Vioxx starting in 1999 for chronic neck and back pain and suffered a heart attack in September 2002 at age 58, followed by quintuple bypass surgery. His case was chosen as the second bellwether trial in the federal Vioxx multidistrict litigation, and on August 17, 2006 a New Orleans jury found Merck had negligently failed to warn his doctors of the drug's risks and had concealed information about those risks, awarding him $50 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. The trial judge found the compensatory award excessive and ordered a new trial unless Barnett accepted a reduced award; Barnett accepted a remittitur of $1.6 million on June 20, 2007, and judgment was entered in that amount on June 28, 2007. Merck reported that it appealed that judgment, and no decision resolving the appeal has been published.
As chair of the plaintiffs' negotiating committee and Liaison Counsel in the Vioxx multidistrict litigation, Russ Herman directed the negotiations that produced a $4.85 billion settlement with Merck resolving approximately 45,000 to 50,000 personal-injury claims.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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