Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg is a big proponent of the California Code of Civil Procedure § 998 Offer to Compromise process. In fact, there is no logical reason not to use the process in every litigated case! Section 998 provides, among other things, that if a party fails to accept a…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney Barry P. Goldberg is regularly consulted on accident cases where the driver involved is driving someone else’s vehicle. “Baby you can drive my car” might have some unexpected consequences. After an accident, consumers always ask “Does the Automobile Insurance follow the car or the driver?” The answer to this question…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney Barry P. Goldberg id careful about lawsuits and claims involving alleged dangerous conditions of public property. Proving a “dangerous condition” is not always easy even if the condition actually caused or contributed to the plaintiff’s injuries. In order to sue a public entity, the plaintiff has the burden to establish…
Woodland Hills Personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg encounters this “total loss” dance in every car accident case where there is significant property damage. In most cases, the client wants the car “totaled” so he or she can get a new car and not be forced to drive a car with massive repairs. Sometimes, the…
Woodland Hills personal injury attorney Barry P. Goldberg has seen hundreds of unusual accident scenarios in 35 years of personal injury practice. However, liability for the actual accident has never been imposed on a passenger. In fact, it is easy to understand why liability should not expand past the negligent driver—no matter what someone says…
Woodland Hills Personal Injury Lawyer Barry P. Goldberg has long been a leading advocate of Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Coverage. Most of Mr. Goldberg’s advocacy focuses on the fact that “unlicensed” drivers have reached alarming rates in California markedly increasing the chances that your traffic collision will be “uninsured.” The California legislature estimated the “unlicensed” driving population…
Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg is a student of all things insurance. When it comes to this topic the average person turns off immediately and just somehow trusts that the person they buy the insurance from, and then the insurer, will somehow take care of everything. In California, it is the rule…
Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg cringes when interviewing a client and hearing the response “I have Full Coverage.” While it certainly beats “I have no coverage” or “I have minimum coverage”, it really provides less information than clients think. In fact, there is no accepted array of automobile insurance that qualifies as…
Woodland Hills personal injury lawyer Barry P. Goldberg understands that most people are nervous about meeting a lawyer for the first time because most people have been able to avoid legal disputes most of their lives. When you have met a lawyer, it is usually for “bad news” and is (almost) always expensive. Besides that,…
Los Angeles Uninsured Motorist Attorney, Barry P. Goldberg, fields questions from lawyers and insureds alike regarding Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist arbitrations. One of the more frequent topics concerns whether an arbitrator can “award” an amount above the stated policy limits and how “award” procedure actually works. Technically, an arbitrator is limited in assessing damages to…