Recent Results

Breach of Contract

Premier Jets v So Cal Jets – Dec 1, 2022

Evidentiary Sanction Granted in full, ending case

Plaintiff, an air ambulance company, sued jet repair company for loss of use of its jet due to alleged negligent repairs. Plaintiff alleged a 7 month downtime caused more than $3,000,000 in lost revenues. V&R sought to show that historical downtime gutted plaintiff’s lost revenue claim, and issued discovery to prove its defense. A key deposition provided the smoking gun showing a discovery violation had occurred. V&R immediately filed a Motion for Terminating Sanctions and/or Evidentiary Sanctions. (See Motion). At the hearing, plaintiff’s discovery responses were found by the Court to be deficient. As the court stated:

“In other words, after five years of litigation, repeated discovery requests by So Cal Jets, monetary sanctions, evidentiary sanctions, verified statements by Premier Jets’ president denying the existence of spreadsheets, and a court order directing plaintiff to produce relevant documents, plaintiff still failed… [Accordingly], the court finds the appropriate course of action is to impose evidentiary sanctions barring So Cal Jets from offering any evidence of lost revenue.”

The court also imposed monetary sanctions not to exceed $106,000. (See Court Order). As the ruling gutted plaintiff’s case, the case was dismissed soon after.

Negligence Assault & Battery

RQ v LAUSD – October 12, 2022

V&R obtains Defense In Case Alleging illegal strip search at school in DTLA Jury Trial

V&R successfully represented LAUSD in a case where plaintiff accused the dean at John Marshall High School and a campus aide of performing a full body strip search of plaintiff when she was in 9th grade. In giving a defense verdict, the jury also decided that the staff did not commit the alleged accusations of negligence, nor did they act in violation of federal civil rights. Before the jury’s defense verdict, the court granted the school district’s motion for non-suit on the following claims: (1) assault; (2) battery; (3) intentional infliction of emotional distress; and (4) the Bane Act. (See Motion for Non-Suit.)

Medical Malpractice

D.L. v Regents – May 19, 2022

V&R Obtains Million Dollar Verdict in Long Beach Jury Trial

V&R successfully represented plaintiff, 13-year-old D.L., in a case of Medical Malpractice. Regents offered a waiver of any malicious prosecution action and a waiver of costs, but never offered any money to settle. The jury awarded the exact amount requested by V&R during closing arguments – $1,011,000.

V&R successfully argued that Defendant negligently failed to reconcile the findings of the Resident doctor’s physical examination with an inconsistent ultrasound report. Plaintiff checked into urgent care on Oct. 17, 2018, after experiencing pain in his left testicle. Plaintiff received a physical examination the same day from the Resident doctor at the emergency room of UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center. The doctor’s findings indicated that the left testicle was painful, swollen, and high riding, however, an additional exam was performed by a Doppler ultrasound which purportedly showed normal blood flow, leading to an incorrect diagnosis dictating that the condition would resolve itself without need for surgical intervention. Plaintiff returned to an emergency room 5 days later because of this misdiagnosis. Another medical examination was then performed which found Plaintiff’s left testicle to have atrophied, and surgery excurred to remove and replace the testicle with a prosthetic. V&R retained renowned expert Urologist, Milton Krisiloff. Dr. Krisiloff was previously the personal urologist of former President Ronald Reagan, was able to explain to the jury precisely what happened. See Exhibit used at trial. After the trial, one juror remarked “If Doctor Krisiloff had been the treating doctor for the initial examination, this never would have happened.”

See Exhibit.