Los Angeles County Personal Injury Attorneys
Effres & Associates

When you or a loved one has suffered severe or debilitating injuries that will impact your future, it is important that you are aware of your legal rights. The legal experience, knowledge and wisdom of your lawyer will be key factors in ensuring a successful outcome.

The Los Angeles serious injury lawyers of Effres & Associates recognize the turmoil and grief that individuals and families endure and handle each case with sensitivity, care and proven trial strategies. With their approach, clients have recovered the compensation they needed to move forward after a life-altering event.  Effres & Associates specializes in the following areas:

• Wrongful Death
• Medical Malpractice
• Legal Malpractice
• Personal Injury
• Elder Abuse
• Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect
• Construction Accidents
• Products Liability
• Premises Liability
• Automobile Accidents
• Motorcycle Accidents
• Airplane Crashes
• Dog Bite
• Sexual Molestation
• Insurance Bad Faith

Clients of the Firm have suffered:

• Brain Injury
• Birth Defects
• Spinal Cord Injury
• Nerve Injury
• Amputations
• Serious Scars
• Eye Injuries
• Burns
• Many other permanent, severe, debilitating injuries

Serious and catastrophic injuries usually happen suddenly and without warning. While some people may recover from from their injuries, others are permanently disabled, are subject to extreme long-term suffering and sometimes even experience a significantly shortened lifespan--not to mention long-term medical care, loss of income and learning to live with a disability. Dealing with insurance companies and big corporations on your own just adds to the nightmare. Don't suffer financially and/or mentally -- contact Effres & Associates today.

"We provide our clients with more than 36 years of combined experience dealing with an extensive array of catastrophic personal injuries. Our lawyers have obtained record verdicts in California and Virginia, and have been consulted by attorneys nationwide to advise on dental and medical malpractice cases."

- Attorney Steven Effres

Getting Results for Real People:
Effres & Associates knows that hard work, dedication and commitment to detail form the basis of every successful settlement or verdict achieved. And the results speak for themselves. The following is a sampling of the exceptional results secured for personal injury clients by the Firm:

AIRPLANE CRASH

• Airplane Crash - Death of flight attendant from terrorist explosion of Aircraft: $8,000,000

AUTO ACCIDENTS

• Auto Accident / Dangerous Highway - Fractured leg, shoulder, head injury and pain syndrome to 44-year old Bank Vice-President struck head on due to dangerous highway: $4,099,000
• Auto Accident - Freeway collision. Wrongful death to 69-year-old father of adult son: $1,200,000
• Auto Accident - Intersection collision. Cerebral concussion with nerve damage to 16-year-old girl: $1,130,000
• Auto Accident - Broken leg to 36-year-old production biller when a car cut in front of his motorcycle: $1,000,000
• Auto Accident - Freeway collision. Hairdresser - age 55 - neck and back sprain. Homemaker -- fractured leg: $925,946
• Auto/Pedestrian Accident - 5-year-old boy skipping across street heading to playground struck by auto. Wrongful death: $500,000
• Auto Accident - Freeway collision. 35-year-old real estate agent suffers closed head injury resulting in migraine headaches. 30-year-old sales rep -- Right elbow and knee trauma: $485,000
• Auto/Pedestrian Accident -- Truck runs over woman pushing a shopping cart in supermarket parking lot. Wrongful death of 68-year-old mother of 4 adult children: $420,000
•  Auto Accident -- Freeway collision. 38-year-old nurse -- Cervical vertebral fracture. 53-year-old homemaker -- Fractured ribs, shoulder and collarbone. 19-year-old dancer -- Knee injury: $390,000
• Auto Accident - Herniated cervical disc to 45-year-old homemaker from head-on collision: $375,000
• Auto v. Pedestrian - Van strikes 6-year-old girl riding her bike down her driveway into the street. Lacerated scalp, liver and kidney; fractured skull and ribs: $370,000
• Auto Accident - Sheriff in pursuit of drunk driver cuts corner in residential neighborhood striking car of 20-year-old man as he is pulling out of parking space. Annular tear to disc in low back: $305,000

CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENTS

• Construction Accident - 41-year-old painter falls from a catwalk with a missing guardrail. Fractured left elbow, wrist and pelvis: $1,788,361
• Construction Site Accident - Leg and neck injury to pipe-fitter due to ill-maintained scissor lift: $1,000,000
• Construction Accident - Degloving injury to asphalt worker when pinned under dump truck backing up at construction site: $732,250
• Construction Accident - Makeshift scaffolding collapse. Concussion, wrists, right hand and collarbone fractures to 46-year-old journeyman framer: $525,000

DOG BITE

• Dog Bite - 10-year-old boy bitten by neighbor's dog. Lost fingernail-sized portion of top of left ear: $175,000

ELDER ABUSE

• Elder Abuse - 72-year-old woman in convalescent hospital is dropped while being transferred by a patient lift from bed to wheelchair. Fractured left femur: $425,000
• Elder Abuse - Elder care facility allows 80-year-old patient with dementia to wander from the facility where they were supposed to be watching her. Fractured hip from fall: $300,000

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

• Medical Malpractice - Morphine overdose in hospital after back surgery. Wrongful death of 31-year-old finance manager: $830,000
• Medical Malpractice - Hospital's negligent failure to resuscitate 5-year-old heart patient. Wrongful death: $624,774
• Medical Malpractice - Patient's duodenum cut during gallstone surgery. Peritonitis to 49-year-old aerospace engineer: $350,459

NEGLIGENCE

• Negligence - School fails to provide eye protection for supervised hockey game. Eye injury to 7-year-old boy: $1,375,000
• Negligence - Federal Tort Claims Act -- Neck injury to 46-year-old veteran when handicap hand rail came loose at VA hospital: $1,000,000
• Negligence - Restaurant - Bouncer slams 23-year old patron to the ground. Brain injury resulting in manic-depression: $900,000
• Negligence - Pain syndrome from department store sign falling on customer: $640,000
• Negligence - Rancher carelessly moving cattle on highway resulting in auto collision. Herniated cervical disc and wrist injury to 64-year-old man: $500,000

POLICE MISCONDUCT

• Police Misconduct - Unarmed 15-year-old shot by police when he turns into an alley while heading home. Injury to stomach, liver and spleen: $1,400,000

PREMISES LIABILITY

• Premises Liability - Multiple fractures to a forklift operator from a defective gate: $625,000
• Premises Liability - Failure to safeguard steam pipe. Burns to 28-year-old chemical cleaner: $500,000
• Premises Liability - Homeowner's brickwork pattern conceals step-down resulting in fall to house guest. Brain injury resulting in loss of smell and taste alteration: $400,000
• Premises Liability - Electrical panel box explosion. Wrongful death to 34-year-old electrician: $362,500
• Premises Liability - Hotel casino fails to warn that moving walkway is ending. Patron falls because she is standing sideways looking out the picture windows at the tropical scenery. Herniated lumbar disc. No surgery: $330,000
• Premises Liability - Plumber falls through collapsing floor. Torn labrum to shoulder: $316,512

PRODUCTS LIABILITY

• Products Liability/Negligence - Underground electrical switch explosion. Burns to 7-year-old boy and 6-year-old girl: $4,545,000
• Products Liability - Excessive heat to floor of truck. Burns to foot of a 29-year-old woman: $400,000

SEXUAL MOLESTATION

• Sexual Molestation - High School football coach has affair with student as school administrators negligently ignore history of past complaints against coach. Emotional distress to 15-year-old student: $Confidential
  

Take Action to Protect Your Rights:
If you or someone you know has been seriously injured or have lost a loved one due to wrongful death and need the help of an experienced personal injury lawyer, call Effres & Associates today at 866-696-0466, or complete the contact form provided on this site to schedule your free initial consultation.