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Outstanding ResultsThe cases set forth below are a sampling of results achieved for our clients. This is a partial list and does not constitute a promise of any kind. Please remember that these cases and the results achieved were determinant on many factors and results differ from case to case depending on the circumstances particular to each instance. The law firm of Bisnar|Chase is dedicated to each client receiving the absolute best legal representation possible.
Injured motorcyclist - $3 Million after his previous attorney advised that his claim was worth only $15,000. John Bisnar represented an injured motorcyclist who was told by his former attorney that the limit on his case was set by the insurance company. With further investigation, it was determined that the truck driver who hit the motorcyclist was on the job at the time of the accident. Mr. Bisnar was able to settle for more than $3 Million. (Read more about this case at the bottom of this page.) On The Job Injury - $3,000,000.00 In a recent case an employee was severely burned due to an explosion at his place of employment. Before coming to Bisnar|Chase the case had been reviewed by other attorneys as well as an insurance company and it was determined that there was no third party liability. After an exhaustive investigation by Bisnar|Chase, it was determined that there was enough evidence to prosecute a claim for failure to warn of the explosive propensities of the material that exploded. Well in excess of $3,000,000.00 was recovered, including workers' compensation benefits. Construction Site Accident - $2.8 Million Judgement in a construction work site accident case against the builder of a fence that collapsed and injured two workers and the loss of consortium rights of the wife of one of the workers. Premises Liability - $2.5 Million Premises Liability case against State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation. State was negligent in the maintenance of trees at Lake Perris. A eucalyptus tree limb fell (summer branch drop) on park visitor causing paralysis. Client’s previous law firm, after representing client for eight months, told the client she “had no case” and gave her back her file. Auto Products Liability - Confidential Settlement Auto Products Liability case against Ford Motor Company and the rental car agency that rented a 15-passenger van to a group of friends going from Los Angeles to Las Vegas for a birthday party. The fifteen passenger, Ram 350, van rolled over and seat belts failed. Multiple deaths and serious injuries. Auto Accident - $1,425,000 Auto accident caused by dangerous condition left on freeway by CalTrans (State of California) contractors resulting in the death of two teenagers. Auto Accident - $1,154,621 Auto vs. Auto accident with two spinal surgeries. Collected defendant driver’s policy limit and won the balance at a under insured motorist binding arbitration with the insurance company for the injured tow truck driver’s insurance company. Insurance bad faith case going on against the under insured motorist insurance company for their refusal to pay the policy limits without going through the delay and expense of a binding arbitration. Slip and Fall - $1,000,000.00 Bisnar|Chase recovered in excess of $1,000,000.00 for a 94 year old woman who tripped and broke her hip because of a dangerous condition. Upon starting the case, the opposing insurance companies denied all liability. Prior to the trial date, the insurance companies were only offering $240,000.00. On-the-Job Injury - Confidential Settlement On the job injury, products liability case against supplier of materials that “exploded” when worker was cutting 55 gallon drums for disposal. Worker suffered third degree burns to 75% of the front of his body. Auto Products Liability - Confidential Settlement Auto Products Liability case against General Motors for the roll over and roof crush of a Tahoe resulting in the death of the driver and a passenger. Auto Products Liability - Confidential Settlement Auto Product Liability case against General Motors for the death of an adult daughter killed when the roof of Chevrolet pickup crushed during a roll over accident in Mexico. Auto Products Liability - Confidential Settlement Auto Product Liability case against General Motors for seat belt failure in a Chevrolet pickup resulting in a passenger being thrown through the front windshield when the truck went into a ditch. Concussion and facial scaring. Insurance Bad Faith - Confidential Settlement Insurance “Bad Faith” against UNIUM and Provident
Insurance. UNIUM, Auto Products Liability - Confidential Settlement Auto Product Liability case against Susiki Motors. Wind blew over Susiki Samuri killing teenage passenger. Auto Products Liability - Confidential Settlement Auto Product Liability case against General Motors for seat belt failure and against a brake shop for brake failure in a Chevrolet pickup resulting in a passenger being thrown through the front windshield when the truck’s brakes failed and the truck went off the side of a mountain, dirt road. Neck surgery. Automobile Accident - $1,000,000.00 In 1988, John Bisnar obtained nearly a million dollars for a man involved in a traffic accident caused by a driver with only the minimum in insurance, $15,000.00. Although the accident was considered minor, Mr. Bisnar contended that his client developed reflex sympothtic distrophy as a direct result of the auto accident. The insurance company was offering $180,000.00 prior to the award. This was the largest known underinsured motorist award of its time. Bus/Pedestian Accident and On-the-Job Injury - $825,000+ Bus vs. Pedestrian on-the-job injury. Concussion. Settlement also included Metro Link pay additional funds to reimburse workers’ compensation insurance company. Auto Accident - $750,000 Auto vs. Auto, clients previous attorney recommended settling for less than $200,000 after a surgery. Uninsured motorist claim settled for $650,000 with questionable causation and injuries. Auto Accident - $520,000 Auto accident where building materials from freeway construction site hit plaintiff’s car. Freeway construction contractor denied any liability whatsoever. Auto Accident - $500,000 Auto vs. Auto accident. Collected total of defendant’s insurance and then arbitrated client’s uninsured motorist claim. Her insurance company insisted that she was not entitled to the full policy limit until moments before starting the binding arbitration with the threat of an insurance bad faith case hanging over their heads. Premises Liability - $514,000 Premises Liability vs. CalTrans. Client’s previous attorney insisted that he settle his case for $75,000 due in part to drugs detected in client’s blood. Case settled on first day of trial after arguing pre-trial motions to suppress questionable drug evidence and that the plaintiff was “homeless”. Automobile Accident - $500,000.00 Bisnar|Chase represented a seriously injured man whose previous attorney insisted that he settle for under $40,000.00, present value. Upon Bisnar|Chase's taking over the case, the defendants more than quadrupled their settlement offer. Less than seven months later, as the trial was beginning, after stunning successes by Bisnar|Chase in pretrial motions, the defendants (the State of California and CalTrans) more than doubled their previous highest offer and settled for a package in excess of $500,000.00. Auto Products Liability/Negligence/Auto Accident - Confidential Settlement Auto Products Liability case against Ford Motor Company and the maker of a failed seatbelt, TRW. Negligence case against U-Haul the renter of the truck that caused the accident for negligent maintenance and failing to instruct the driver. Auto vs. Auto negligence case against the driver of the U-Haul truck. A minor child was paralyzed and eventually died as a result of a Ford Explorer roll-over and seat belt failure (false latching). Driver injured due to roof crush. Negligence - Confidential Settlement Negligence case against owner and renter of a small plane that crashed on take off, killing the pilot and one passenger and severely injuring the other passenger. Assault and Battery - $425,000 Assault and Battery on a BMW dealer’s general manager by former NFL player. Settled on the fourth day of trial. On-the-Job Injury - $250,000 Trucker delivering to Carl’s Jr’s. Anaheim warehouse was injured by a forklift driver while on loading dock.. Case taken over from previous attorney who was not equipped to go to trial. Auto Accident - $200,000 Auto vs. Parked Commercial vehicle. Death of daughter passenger in auto that ran into illegally parked semi-truck. Parents refused to accept settlement offered during trial which was Multiple times higher. Class Action Suit - $185,000 Class action lawsuit against cellular phone company for changing employee compensation plan and failing to pay bonuses previously earned. Premises Liability - $150,000 Plaintiff injured while walking through his condominium parking lot to his unit at night. Pipes attached to the top of a plumbing truck created a hazard in the dark. Auto Accident - $145,000 Settled for total of multiple auto insurance policies that we were able to discover and then “stack”. Auto Accident - $140,000 Settled auto claim on behalf of injured party for the $100,000 policy limit and then collected $40,000 additional for family member who was traumatized by witnessing injury (Dillon claim). Slip & Fall - $125,000+ Slip & Fall case against Wal-Mart. The defense attorneys before the trial bragged that they had NEVER lost a Wal-Mart case and they would go up on appeal it they lost. Jury awarded $125,000 and Wal-Mart appealed. Wal-Mart eventually settled appeal paying more than the original jury award. Negligence - $109,000 General Negligence against a restaurant. Patron was “goated” into going on stage by female impersonator who then injured him by “dropping” on him. Premises Liability - $109,000 Award in Premises Liability - Salon chair collapsed injuring patron. Dog Bite - $100,000 Postal worker received a minor bite and large psychological injury due to incident. Policy limit. Auto/Truck Accident - $100,000 Auto passing to the left of semi-truck making a left hand turn. Soft tissue injury to truck driver. Auto Accident - $100,000 $1,200 property damage to plaintiff’s vehicle. Previous attorney insisted that client settle for the $7,500 being offered by defense insurance company. Auto Accident - $100,000 (Policy limit) $100,000 Auto vs. Auto, policy limit on both third party and under insured motorist policy Elder/Nursing Home Abuse - $100,000.00 Bisnar|Chase recovered $100,000.00 for a 94 year old man who, as the result of a fall at his nursing home, received seven stitches to his head. The settlement was reached quickly at a Court ordered Settlement Conference after Bisnar|Chase uncovered the nursing home's parent company's negligence of knowingly understaffing the facility and using unqualified help. Dog Bites - $100,000.00 each In August of 1999 a young girl was bitten by a neighbor's dog, resulting in serious injury. Within 90 days from the date of the incident Bisnar|Chase fully investigated the case, consulted doctors, obtained the medical records, filed and served a lawsuit and settled the case for $100,000.00. Again in August of 1999, another young girl was bitten by a neighbor's dog while her brother watched. Again, within 90 days from the date of the incident Bisnar|Chase fully investigated the case, consulted doctors, obtained the medical records, filed and served a lawsuit and settled the case for the maximum of the dog owner's insurance, $100,000.00. A significant portion of the recovery went to the young girl's 12 year old brother who was traumatized by witnessing the event. Construction Site Accident - $90,000+ Construction site accident against general contractor and land owner, both of which denied any liability whatsoever. Recovery included waiver by workers’ compensation carrier of reimbursement. Auto Accident - $93,703 (Exceeds policy limit) $500 in property damage. Exposed policy limit and insurance company was forced to pay entire amount, am amount in excess of the policy limit. Premises Liability - $90,000 Premises liability against Victoria Secrets retail store for injuries sustained when a display item fell and injured shopper. Previous attorney suggested abandoning case due to the complexities and the liability issues. Dog Bite - $75,000 Dog bite to minor child by grandparents dog. Auto Accident - $75,000 Auto vs. Auto - Major pre-existing injuries Auto Accident - $70,000 Auto vs. Auto, meniscus surgery Slip & Fall - $60,000 Slip & Fall at a McDonalds’ Auto Accident - $56,000 Auto vs. Auto accident - meniscus surgery Auto Accident - $65,000 Auto vs. Auto accident. Defendant was uninsured. Made an uninsured motorist claim against Plaintiffs policy. Her insurance carrier refused to pay until we won $30,000 at uninsured motorist arbitration. Due to her insurance companies “bad fath” we sued them and collect an additional $35,000. Premises Liability - $25,235 Premises liability against condominium complex for a dangerous condition causing injury to condominium owner. Auto/Pedestrian Accident - $25,000 Auto vs. Pedestrian. Policy limit recovery when a child darted out into a residential street between cars and was seriously injured. Premises Liability - $25,000 Premises Liability against general contractor at a construction job site. Plaintiff fell into unmarked hole in the floor of a building. Assault and Battery - $25,000 Client was a crime victim while at his car. Recovered policy limits under his auto “uninsured motorist” coverage. Dog Bite - $25,000 Dog bite recovery against owner of a rental house where tenants kept a “viscous” dog that bit a child. Other Victories and Settlements:
Injured motorcyclist - $3 Million after his previous attorney advised that his claim was worth only $15,000. On a normal, fully scheduled day, John Bisnar received an urgent call from a business associate, a local realtor. The caller frantically explained that her brother-in-law was in a Sacramento hospital, his doctors had recommended a complicated, risky surgery, and he was panicking about what would become of his family and about payment of the mounting medical expenses. She further explained that her brother-in-law was desperate to get answers from his attorney about these issues before consenting to surgery, that his attorney was not returning calls and his attorney had previously advised that his case was only worth $15,000, the maximum amount of insurance of the negligent automobile driver. Mr. Bisnar immediately spoke to the injured man and quickly realized that this was not a consultation to have over the phone. Mr. Bisnar canceled the rest of his day and took the next flight to Sacrament. Once Mr. Bisnar arrived at the hospital, the injured man explained that he was hit by a car while on his motorcycle in the course of running an errand for his employer. He said he had hired a nationally known motorcycle accident attorney and that the attorney advised him that the negligent driver's insurance limit was $15,000 and that was the total value of his claim. He went on to explain that his doctors had advised him that he could lose his leg (it was eventually saved). After Mr. Bisnar answered his questions, advised him regarding his Workers' Compensation benefits and explained that his attorney probably was right about the $15,000 value of his claim. The injured man asked to hire Mr. Bisnar, explaining that he had received more information from Mr. Bisnar about his circumstances, his rights, his options and the probable outcome of his case than he had received from his present attorney after weeks of representation. Mr. Bisnar reluctantly accepted. An immediate investigation uncovered that the negligent driver was a route salesman for a beer distributor and was probably on the job at the time of the accident (although the employer initially denied this). When the employer was advised of the results of the Bisnar investigation, the insurance company for the employer offered to settle the claim for a few hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Bisnar did settle the claim with the beer distributor.
The total recovery included $750,000 in up front cash,
all medical expenses paid, Workers' Compensation liens
satisfied, and an income for life (future value of the
"income for life" exceed $2,000,000). HOLDING WRONGDOERS ACCOUNTABLE
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