About Steve Vosseller

Steve Vosseller is a partner at Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire representing individuals and families harmed by others' negligence. He grew up in Kansas City, raised by his father, an elevator constructor, and was the first member of his extended family to graduate from college. Throughout college and law school at Washburn University School of Law, he volunteered with community service organizations and played rugby. After law school, he served as an attorney on the island of Yap in the western Pacific Ocean, working as Assistant Legislative Counsel for the local government. He moved to San Diego in 2000 and worked for two prominent defense firms, defending physicians in medical malpractice cases and defendants in personal injury lawsuits.

In 2004, he switched to plaintiff's representation and joined Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire. He holds an AV Preeminent peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named among the top 5% of California attorneys by Super Lawyers every year since 2012, including Top 50 in San Diego. He has received Outstanding Trial Lawyer Awards from the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego for verdicts in a traumatic brain injury case (Burin v. YRC Trucking, $12.3 million) and a medical malpractice case (Husic v. LECC, $558,000). He is a Master of the American Inns of Court, William B. Enright Chapter.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire

These results are credited to Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$94.5 millionVerdict

A San Diego Superior Court jury returned a $94.5 million verdict for Otay Mesa developer Roque de la Fuente II after finding the City of San Diego breached a development agreement and damaged his 312-acre Border Business Park through airport planning announcements and commercial truck routing that blocked access to the site.

San Diego Superior Court / California Court of Appeal (4th Dist.) · 2001Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$26.5 millionVerdict

A San Diego Superior Court jury awarded $26.5 million to Anderprises Inc. after Caltrans used eminent domain to take a 2.8-acre strip for the Route 905 freeway, cutting off access to the remaining 55 acres of the Anderson family's Otay Mesa land.

San Diego Superior Court · 2007Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$18.3 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2009 · #12

A federal jury awarded roughly $18.3 million to musician Dax Pierson after a defective seat restraint in a 2005 Ford passenger van separated during a rollover, driving his head into the roof and leaving him paralyzed from the chest down.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · 2009Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$13 millionVerdict

After a 99-day bench trial, San Diego Superior Court Judge Kevin A. Enright awarded approximately $12.775 million in compensatory and punitive damages to 22 women who were deceived into appearing in online pornographic videos produced by GirlsDoPorn, with the court also ordering payment of $8 million in attorneys' fees.

San Diego Superior Court · 2020Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

In a December 2017 ruling, California's highest court held that Novartis owed a duty to warn consumers who took a generic bioequivalent of its drug Brethine, allowing twin children injured in utero by generic terbutaline to pursue negligence claims against the brand-name manufacturer.

Supreme Court of California (S233898) · 2017Product LiabilityRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Washburn University School of Law
J.D.

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2000

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