The Law Offices of Brian Brandt

A Los Angeles County jury awarded $150,750,000 against truck driver Rudolph Ortiz and Bhandal Bros. Trucking for a girl who was orphaned when her family's SUV struck an 18-wheeler parked without lights on the shoulder of the 210 Freeway and caught fire, killing her parents and eldest brother. Brian Brandt tried the case for the plaintiff. The verdict did not stand: on February 3, 2014, Judge Marc Marmaro granted the defense a new trial, finding the award excessive, and the case then settled in April 2014 on confidential terms before any retrial.

Cynthia Castillo lost control of her 1997 Ford Explorer near Rancho Cucamonga, California, on March 23, 2007, after the tread separated from the left rear tire and the SUV rolled down an embankment, leaving her a quadriplegic. She sued Ford Motor Co. in San Bernardino County Superior Court, arguing the Explorer's design turned a routine tire failure into a rollover. In February 2010, a jury returned a unanimous verdict for Castillo of $23.4 million, split between medical care and future needs and her pain and suffering. The Associated Press named her attorney, Brian Brandt, as the lawyer who argued the case for the plaintiff.