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Millions of Americans visit beaches all across the country in order to spend free-time with friends and family in the warmer months, get some much needed sun, and relax. We are familiar with the fun activities that are associated with beach-going, such as wading in the waves, surfing, and playing in the sand. However,...

Imagine you’re walking home from picking up a gallon of milk and a package of diapers from the corner store in your shady, tree-lined California community when your foot catches on a raised, cracked section of sidewalk pushed up from a tree root running below. Unable to catch yourself, you pitch forward headlong with...

With the meteoric rise of rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft in the last decade, fewer people choose public transport, and instead, the roadways are more crowded with private vehicles, including Uber and Lyft vehicles transporting passengers, traveling to pick up passengers, and cruising the streets while waiting for a passenger to request a...

After a five day jury trial, Haffner & Morgan, LLP obtained a $101,000.00 verdict in an insurance bad faith trial against State Farm Insurance. The jury agreed that our client’s homeowner’s insurance claim was improperly denied and handled in bad faith by State Farm. After attorney’s fees and expert costs, which State Farm now...

A recent local appellate decision in our 4th District, 1st Division, Court of Appeals, finds that medical record request fees which exceed the limits set in Evidence Code section 1158 are not in violation thereof because attorneys create their own agency relationship with copy-services where they proceed to pay invoices received after submitting record requests to...

If the other driver is at fault, you should almost always try to use the other person’s auto-insurance to get the property damage to your car fixed. Ultimately, their insurance will be paying the bill anyway. By opening a property damage claim with the at-fault driver you are cutting out the middle-man. Using the...