Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg is always looking for sources of recovery for his clients particularly because many drivers are either uninsured or underinsured. This means either there was no insurance to cover your loss or not enough insurance to cover your loss completely. In those cases, it is a very important…
As much as motorcyclists may not want to admit it, the injuries suffered by a rider or passenger of a motorcycle involved in a crash are often far more severe than those suffered by a driver or passenger in a car. Without several tons of steel, seat belts, and other safety devices to protect them,…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney Barry P. Goldberg is also known as “The Los Angeles Uninsured Motorist Attorney” because he has written extensively on the topic, has handled thousands of Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist claims, and is a frequent commentator on all things UM and UIM. Not surprisingly, Mr. Goldberg is regularly contacted by both…
Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg is both careful about incurring costs and spends a significant amount of time explaining how costs work to clients. Clients need to understand what costs they will recover by going to trial and which ones they will not. This analysis should be part of the decision-making process…
Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg starts receiving phone calls around this “tax time” of year from clients asking whether their personal injury settlements must be declared and are taxable. I always answer the question the same way, I am not qualified to provide tax advice. In fact, I “glazed over” in law…
Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg frequently comments on proper uses and tactics of C.C.P § 998 Offers to Compromise. In fact, it is one of the few very useful tools left for a personal injury attorney to prompt or force a settlement with a third party in litigation. Moreover, C.C.P § 998…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney Barry P. Goldberg is an expert on all things “Uninsured” and “Underinsured.” The problem with Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist claims is that there is no integrated statute and procedural guidelines for properly handling these claims. It is a patchwork of statutes, rules and contractual provisions. Many, if not most, personal…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney Barry P. Goldberg must look for viable liability theories against all possible defendants, particularly in catastrophic injury cases. One theory of liability that can create liability is when a dangerous condition of property exists and the landowner fails to warn of the known dangers. The lure of this theory is…
Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg gets this question all the time. In fact, sometimes the failure to obtain a police traffic collision report is the motivating reason why accident victims decide to contact a personal injury lawyer in the first place. Because the traffic collision reports are more than just information, this…
Motorcycle accidents are all too common in the San Fernando Valley. Whether its riders coming to or from the windy canyon roads or those using their bikes as an opportunity to avoid some of the 101’s notoriously heavy traffic, more and more motorcyclists are on the roads. And more and more of these riders are…