GMSR’s appellate work has been on the leading edge of important tort issues, running the gamut from duty to breach to causation and damages. GMSR’s substantive experience includes personal injury, property damage, fraud and misrepresentation, products liability, landowner liability, vicarious liability, defamation and invasion of privacy, and construction defects.
Wood v. Riverside Gen. Hospital (1994) 25 Cal.App.4th 1113
Patient complaint letters to hospital did not comply with requirement of Government Tort Claims Act to present claim for damages before filing action
DeVilar v. Southern Cal. Rapid Transit District (Sept. 20, 1993, B067510)
Duty of bus company to passenger to warn of and prevent unprovoked and unforseen assault by another passenger
Veatch v. Kubota Tractor Corp. (Feb. 3, 1993, A051524)
Personal injury action; instructional error and comparative fault issues
Central Pathology Service Medical Clinic, Inc. v. Superior Court (1992) 3 Cal.4th 181
MICRA punitive damages provisions apply to claimed intentional torts
Gorman v. City of Newport Beach (Aug. 31, 1992, G011663)
Contributory negligence of pedestrian struck by bicyclist whose bicycle suddenly slipped in sand negligently accumulated on repaired patch of public boardwalk
Jacoves v. United Merchandising Corp. (1992) 5 Cal.App.4th 1318
Medical malpractice against hospital – negligence of physician imputed to hospital; duty to inform plaintiffs of remarks suggesting decedent son was contemplating suicide
George v. Internat. Society for Krishna Consciousness (1992) 3 Cal.App.4th 52
Mixed tort action based on alleged “brainwashing” of teenage plaintiff by ISKCON religious entities and officials
Anderson v. Regents of the University of Cal., 1991 Cal. LEXIS 5765
Medical malpractice – res ipsa loquitur and strict products liability
Guzman v. County of Los Angeles (1991) 234 Cal.App.3d 1343
Public hospital is statutorily immune for injuries suffered by persons involuntarily detained for involuntary mental evaluation
Spragg v. Marina Gateway Development (Dec. 20, 1991, B046184)
Tortious interference with right to broker’s commission
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