What happened
Etehad Law has secured a $1,250,000 policy-limits settlement for a client who was broadsided at a Los Angeles intersection by a driver who pulled out from a stop sign without yielding. During deposition it was discovered that the driver was on her cell phone in the moments before impact and that she never looked for oncoming traffic before pulling forward.
What the defense argued
The defense denied liability from the beginning and made no settlement offer at any point in the litigation, even retaining an expert who claimed our client’s injuries and surgery were unrelated to the crash.
How Etehad Law handled it
Simon Etehad and Erik Harper kept building the case: they developed liability by using the power of subpoena and from the defendant’s own sworn testimony.
Outcome
On the eve of expert depositions, the insurer tendered its full policy limits.
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