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| STARZ Home Entertainment, LLC v. Lindsay Dunlap and Ember Entertainment |
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| Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC373707 |
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| Jury Verdict - $3,054,694.45 |
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| After persevering in the face of over three years of "scorched earth" litigation tactics by the Defendants, the firm obtained a $3,054,694.45 jury verdict on behalf of its client, STARZ Home Entertainment, LLC. This amount included amounts for breach of contract, fraud, as well as substantial punitive damages against the Defendants, jointly and severally. Further, the firm was able to pierce the corporate veil based on extensive forensic accounting work which was distilled from thousands of separate documents and presented at trial, providing overwhelming evidence that the corporate entity existed only as an alter ego created to facilitate the fraud perpetrated by the individual defendant. |
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| Rebecca Bolanos v. Darbun Enterprises, Inc., Children's Hospital Los Angeles, et al. |
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| Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. BC354361 |
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| Settlement - $1,500,000.00 |
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| The Plaintiff was one year old when she underwent surgery to remove a benign cystic hygroma from her neck. As a result of post-surgical care that was alleged to be below the standard of care, the Plaintiff suffered a severe brain injury as the result of an sustained anoxic insult. The Plaintiff was rendered catastrophically and permanently brain damaged as a result, necessitating round-the-clock medical care for the remainder of her life. The ensuing litigation proved as complex as the injury itself, and the matter was fully and finally resolved after nearly four years of litigation. |
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| Rebecca Bolanos v. Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles |
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| 169 Cal.App.4th 744, 87 Cal.Rptr.3d 174 |
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| Petition for Writ of Mandate granted. |
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| An ancillary action to Bolanos v. Darbun, this appeal in the California Court of Appeal for the Second District sought to have the Court compel the Director of the California Department of Health Services to abide by the United States Supreme Court's decision in Arkansas Dept. of Health and Human Servs. V. Ahlborn (2006) 547 U.S. 268 and Welfare & Institutions Code $14124.72(d) in calculating the amount of reimbursable expenses claimed by the Department in cases where medical care was provided to injured minors by and through the Medi-Cal program. The Court differentiated between past and future medical expenses in the calculation of the appropriate reimbursement amount in cases involving injured minors such as in this instance, utilizing a ratio between the settlement amount and the total claim asserted in order to fix the Medi-Cal lien amount. The matter was remanded to the trial court to determine the appropriate lien amount, which resulted in a substantially larger recovery amount on behalf of the minor client. |
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| Jane Doe v. Roe Corporation |
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| Confidential |
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| Settlement - $247,000.00 |
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| Plaintiff alleged that she had experienced substantial economic harm as the result of the illegal business practices of her employer. The employer categorically denied each and every one of its former employee's allegations. The matter was resolved just prior to trial. |
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