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Personal Injury

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Provided by Allen, Glaessner, Hazelwood and Werth, LLP

Type of Work Handled

The personal injury work includes straightforward to complex cases involving premises, transportation and product liability, often involving serious, if not catastrophic injuries, or wrongful death. Lawsuits alleging defamation, violation of privacy, violation of California’s Business & Professional Code and consumer lending statutes. Lawsuits against public entities alleging personal injury, brought under Government Code statutes.

Categories of Clients

Retail and transportation businesses, often with large self-insured retentions, primary and excess insurers and risk pools.

Recent Work Highlights

  • Denial of class action certification against a public entity arising from urban wildfire;
  • Defense verdict in race discrimination lawsuit;

Specializations

  • California Business & Professions Code;
  • California Government Code concerning public entity liability and immunities;
  • Federal and California consumer lending statutes (Fair Credit Reporting Act, Federal Fair Debt Collection Act, Rees-Levering Act, California Homeowners Bill of Rights)
  • California Unruh Act and Bane Act

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What the Team is Known For

Allen, Glaessner, Hazelwood and Werth, LLP possesses a strong offering in the personal injury space. The group is known to represent public entities in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. The San Francisco-based firm routinely defends transportation and trucking clients in complex cases. The group leverages its wider expertise in civil litigation to provide thorough representation to clients.

Allen, Glaessner, Hazelwood and Werth, LLP represented the City of Fremont in a wrongful death case arising from an employment dispute, brought forth by the family of a deceased police captain, settling the case at mediation.

Peter Glaessner is a key contact.