Booth Law's Verdicts and Settlements

In 1972, Larry Booth became the fourth attorney in California to achieve a million-dollar verdict in a personal injury case. Since then, we have been fortunate to obtain over 100 jury verdicts and settlements for $1,000,000 and above for our clients in the Los Angeles, South Bay and all over California.

$28,900,000
Mota v. City of L.A.

JURY VERDICT: Poor street maintenance lead to crossover accident

$25,000,000
Eli M. v. County of Riverside and Angelita Saldana

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff was severely abused and tortured at the hands of his father's girlfriend for a period of approximately eight months.

$25,000,000
Lara T. v. County of Riverside

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiffs physically and sexually abused by their biological father over a period of several years.

$23,566,208
Qualls v. Case Corporation

JURY VERDICT: Plaintiff crushed by loader/backhoe

$20,200,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Young boy drowned in swimming pool when he was trapped on pool drain, and his family brought claims against the pool owner, pool cleaner and pump manufacturer.

$14,847,509
Does v. City of Santa Monica

SETTLEMENT: Our firm represented 14 victims who were sexually abused by a police department employee while participating in the Santa Monica Police Activities League during their childhood.

$13,813,057
Dugan v. LIGA International

JUDGMENT: Plastic surgeon died en route to Mexico to render humanitarian medical services

$13,319,588
Doe v. University of Southern California

SETTLEMENT: Our firm represented 12 women who were sexually abused and harassed by a campus gynecologist

$12,000,000
Lee v. Fujita

SETTLEMENT: Small child injured in head-on collision

$10,070,000
Gonzalez v. Diana’s Mexican Food

JUDGMENT: Plaintiff hit in intersection by delivery truck

$10,000,000
Jacquelyn H. v. County of Riverside

SETTLEMENT: Girl was repeatedly raped by her mother’s boyfriend

$9,400,000
Yarnall v. S.K. Management

SETTLEMENT: Fall through roof opening

$7,000,000
Hossain v. Baker Real Estate

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff burned while using apartment stove

$7,000,000
Kuykendall and Mahoney

SETTLEMENT: Fall from scaffolding at The Hollywood Bowl

$7,000,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Construction worker struck by train and suffered traumatic brain injury.

$6,316,594
Patterson v. MGM Resorts

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiffs’ wife and mother was shot and killed at the Route 91 concert in Las Vegas

$6,000,000
Chloe M. v. County of Riverside.

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff was forced by her father to watch and participate in the torture of her brother, which eventually lead to his death, and child protective services failed to intervene.

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$5,850,000
Does v. University of California

SETTLEMENT: Our firm represented seven women who were sexually abused and harassed by a UCLA gynecologist

$5,784,572
Bennett v. Kinney Shoes

JURY VERDICT: Security guard shot while making bank deposit

$5,300,000
Carrillo v. Rosetti Construction Company, Inc.

SETTLEMENT: Fall from roof during construction project

$5,062,500
Lomeli v. Kalmar Industries

SETTLEMENT: Forklift accident

$5,000,000
Krienke v. Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Bicycle rider struck by large truck

$5,000,000
Denney v. J.D. Carley Corp.

SETTLEMENT: Fire on construction site

$5,000,000
Smith v. Farmer Brothers

SETTLEMENT: Painter electrocuted when he contacted high voltage power lines

$5,000,000
Zitz-Evancich v. City of Los Angeles

SETTLEMENT: Husband injured and wife killed when rear-ended by City maintenance truck

$4,345,000
Salas Family

SETTLEMENT: Roofer fell 13 feet when defective wooden beam broke

$4,000,000
Schultz vs. San Diego County

JURY VERDICT: Unsafe San Diego County road led to fatal auto accident

$4,000,000
Cleanmaster v. Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co.

SETTLEMENT: Insurer claimed that plaintiff set fire to his own business

$4,000,000
Anthony E. v. County of San Bernardino

SETTLEMENT: Two young boys suffered sexual abuse while in foster care system

$4,000,000
Romeri/Galvan vs. CalTrans, Tire Store

SETTLEMENT: Single vehicle accident and wrongful death in Del Norte County, California

$4,000,000
Confidential

JUDGMENT: Plaintiffs sued their father, who murdered their mother, for wrongful death

$4,000,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Products liability case against dryer manufacturer arising out of mobile home fire that killed plaintiffs’ 67-year-old mother.

$3,800,000
Reneau

SETTLEMENT: Pedestrian struck by bus while crossing street

$3,600,000
Leavitt v. Ultramar

SETTLEMENT: Explosion at oil storage facility

$3,454,328
Stamper v. Lawrence Drive Partners

JURY VERDICT: Plaintiff struck by crane when tilt-up wall collapsed

$3,100,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Brain-injured child sexually abused in hospital

$3,000,000
Sanchez v. Agri-Mix Transport

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff impaled by metal gate while driving forklift

$3,000,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Bus crossed over center line and collided with decedent’s car

$2,750,000
Steel

SETTLEMENT: Fall off platform

$2,700,000
Nunez-Aguirre v. White Cap

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff fell from scaffolding while on the job

$2,625,000
Ruiz

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff sued the parent company of his employer for providing dangerous equipment

$2,500,000
MaGee v. Challenge – Cook Brothers, Inc.

SETTLEMENT: Construction worker killed in accident that his father witnessed

$2,500,000
Mikayla O. v. County of Riverside

SETTLEMENT: Two-year-old suffered brain damage while in foster care system

$2,450,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff suffered mild brain injury when air bag failed to deploy

$2,395,000
Baez v. Summit Media

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff contacted power lines while working on billboard

$2,250,000
Baney

SETTLEMENT: Retired pro baseball pitcher struck by car

$2,200,000
Lopez Case

SETTLEMENT: Auto accident case involving negligent entrustment of company car

$2,190,000
DeLaTorre v. Kwan

SETTLEMENT: Multiple deaths in apartment fire

$2,165,000
Karle v. Aerojet

SETTLEMENT: Fall through roof panel

$2,150,000
Confidential

JUDGMENT: Two teenage boys molested by teacher

$2,000,000
Von During

SETTLEMENT: Failure to perform AFP test, baby born with spina bifida

$2,000,000
Lee v. Sheehan, Carmichael

SETTLEMENT: Decedent’s car struck by a horse, which may have been frightened by a tiger

$2,027,356
Todd v. County of L.A.

JURY VERDICT: Sewer cover cracked and caused accident involving bus

$2,000,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: 24-year-old woman rear-ended on freeway and killed

$2,000,000
Orr v. Maersk

SETTLEMENT: Oversized load on truck bed struck freeway overpass and landed on plaintiff’s car

$1,900,000
Jijon v. Todd Construction Services

SETTLEMENT: Fall during construction. Case settled during trial

$1,850,000
Roche v. City of L.A.

SETTLEMENT: Fall during construction. Case settled during 3rd week of trial

$1,800,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: 7-year-old boy killed by air bag

$1,800,000
Gateline v. DeMolay International

SETTLEMENT: 20-year-old man paralyzed during football game at DeMolay meeting

$1,762,470
Chapman v. L.A. Unified School District

JURY VERDICT: Plaintiff apparently fell from scaffold, but no one witnessed it

$1,750,000
Gonzales

SETTLEMENT: Fall through roof

$1,750,000
Xa/Truong v. San Gabriel Valley Hospital

SETTLEMENT: Brain damage to infant during birth

$1,650,000

S.M. v. K.C.

SETTLEMENT: Sexual abuse, rape of teenager by her brother-in-law. Victim brought the lawsuit more than 40 years after the events occurred.

$1,650,000
Garcia v. Ortiz Construction

SETTLEMENT: Child struck by car because of poor traffic control on construction project

$1,600,000
Gruenwald

SETTLEMENT: Two ironworkers fell approximately 17 feet

$1,600,000
Wilson v. C. H. Heist

SETTLEMENT: Truck crossed over center line on mountain road, killing two people

$1,550,000
Aguilar v. Underwriters Laboratories

SETTLEMENT: Defective Christmas tree lights caused fire. Case settled during trial

$1,540,000
Bird

JURY VERDICT: Insurer failed to promptly pay $10,000 underinsured motorist benefits

$1,530,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: 15-year-old died from disease that he contracted from a drug injection

$1,519,823
Rodriguez v. Anderson Hydraulics

JURY VERDICT: Plaintiff’s hand crushed in concrete block making machine

$1,500,000
Lopez v. Monarch Builders

SETTLEMENT: Fall from height

$1,500,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Brain-injured child sexually abused in hospital

$1,500,000
Gardner

SETTLEMENT: 7-year-old hit by car while riding bicycle

$1,500,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: A group of 81 plaintiffs sued a construction contractor for injuries that they sustained over the course of about two years, as a result of the contractor failing to prevent the spread of large amounts of dust from a construction project into the plaintiffs’ neighborhood.

$1,435,000
Dima

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiffs struck freeway guardrail, which broke and caused injuries

$1,400,000
Exposito v. State of California

SETTLEMENT: Concrete slab fell off parking structure during earthquake and killed college student

$1,398,000
Metzger v. Ocean Salt

JURY VERDICT: Plaintiff struck by falling pipe

$1,375,000
Gail C. v. County of Riverside

SETTLEMENT: Two-year-old girl subjected to severe neglect

$1,300,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Brain-injured woman molested in hospital

$1,300,000
Liang v. UPS

SETTLEMENT: Decedent struck by UPS truck

$1,342,161
Wilson v. Edison

JURY VERDICT: Plaintiff electrocuted when backhoe contacted underground power line

$1,275,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff contracted fatal disease from drug injection

$1,275,000
Tep v. Stubben North America

SETTLEMENT: Collision in intersection

$1,275,000
Oester v. Martin Brothers

SETTLEMENT: Ironworker fell down elevator shaft at Ronald Reagan Library

$1,250,000
Spivak

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff fell in hotel shower

$1,250,000
Confidential

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff contracted serious, untreatable disease from a drug injection

$1,275,000
Evans v. Continental Ins. Co.

JURY VERDICT: Insurer failed to promptly settle $25,000 dog bite claim

$1,250,000
Valdez v. California Highway Patrol

SETTLEMENT: Tow truck driver died after being abandoned by CHP officers

$1,250,000
Wyche v. City of L.A.

JURY VERDICT: Police beat plaintiff with flashlight

$1,200,000
Payne v. USPCI

SETTLEMENT: 13-year-old died in rear-end accident and mother injured

$1,185,000
Garcia v. County of Riverside

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiffs’ vehicle struck pothole and lost control

$1,180,000
Laube v. Clear Channel

SETTLEMENT: Plaintiff contacted power lines while working on billboard

$1,175,000
Jane Doe v. City of Monterey Park

SETTLEMENT: Police officer sexually assaulted plaintiff during a traffic stop.

$1,035,000
Geibel

SETTLEMENT: Bicycle accident caused by roadway construction

$1,010,000
Carrera v. Mora Construction

SETTLEMENT: Construction worker suffers spinal cord injury

$1,000,000
Childs v. Alpha Beta

JURY VERDICT: Delivery man slipped and fell at supermarket

$1,000,000
Hutchison

SETTLEMENT: Winch device failed seriously injuring ironworker

$1,000,000
Khuat v. Toyota

SETTLEMENT: Forklift accident

$1,000,000
Jacobs/Daggy v. Seagate Technology

SETTLEMENT: Visitor to U.S. from Ireland drove on wrong side of road and collided with plaintiffs

$1,000,000
Perez v. Mateut

SETTLEMENT: 73-year-old truck driver burned to death after another trucker collided with him at an intersection

$1,000,000
Veronica S. v. County of Riverside

SETTLEMENT: A teenage girl was raped and kidnapped by her mother’s boyfriend.

$1,000,000
Carlos Davis and HD Doe v. Home 2 U 9, LLC

SETTLEMENT: A minor was molested by an escapee of a disabled resident facility who broke into the home.

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