David Lopez Law

Brain Injury and Head Injury

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Brain trauma results in lifelong challenges for the brain-injured person and his or her family. Brain injuries may show only minor indications immediately following an injury. However, brain injury and closed head injury can result in significant changes to personality, memory, the ability to make decisions, the ability to manage money, the ability to work, and the ability to manage day-to-day functions, tasks and activities. Brain-injured persons can become impulsive, moody, or quick to be angry. Brain injury can cause dramatic emotional, mental and physical changes. Brain injury can cause the loss of the ability to speak, understand, walk, and handle even minor tasks. Brain injury can also cause death.

As an experienced personal injury attorney, David Lopez understands the lifelong challenges faced by brain-injured persons and their families and knows how to present these challenges to a jury. David Lopez, Esq. has over 20 years experience handling hundreds of serious injury cases, many of those, traumatic brain injury cases. David Lopez has the knowledge, experience, and skill to obtain the financial compensation brain injured persons need to handle the challenges they face. Traumatic Brain Injuries are catastrophic injuries that require careful attention to the future needs and cost of future care for the brain-injured person. Because they are catastrophic injuries, brain injuries can result in life-long disability and the need for life-long medical care, lifecare assistance, learning assistance for even minor skills, and household services assistance, among other needs. Such catastrophic injuries require careful analysis of complicated financial damage calculations, large damage awards, well-crafted structured settlements, analysis of the effects of probable reduced life expectancy, and placing values on a person's daily needs for his or her life expectancy. Experienced analysis is required to carefully calculate the future needs of the brain-injured person and place financial values on those needs to ensure appropriate compensation for the catastrophically brain-injured person.

If you or a loved one has suffered a traumatic brain injury or head injury, please contact David Lopez by e-mail at david@davidlopezlaw.com, or call him at 619-985-6187 for a free consultation and case evaluation. David Lopez, Esq., has extensive experience with serious head injuries, including traumatic brain injury, concussion, skull fractures and closed head injuries resulting from truck accidents, auto accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, railroad accidents, workplace accidents, and motorcycle accidents. We work with only the best brain trauma and accident expert witnesses and know how to present a brain injury case to a jury to help them understand the lifelong challenges faced daily by brain injured persons.

Government Property Accidents, Government Vehicle Accidents, Government Liability

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Legal claims against government agencies are difficult because the set of laws involved are biased to protect the governmental entity. This complex set of laws works to the disadvantage of the person injured by the wrongful acts of government employees, negligent operation of a government vehicle, or by a dangerous condition of public property. The law of government liability in California, namely, the Government Tort Claims Act, has claims procedures that must be followed scrupulously and immunities that the government will attempt to use to to eliminate a person's claim and have it rejected from court, even when the facts show wrongful acts by the government or government employees, or dangerous public property. The Federal Tort Claims Act provides the same type of protection to the Federal government for personal injury and wrongful death claims against the Federal Government.

The experienced government liability attorney knows that the court's perceptions of the lawsuit must be managed in a way that benefits the injured client. Because the set of laws is biased in favor of protecting the government agency, the attorney must know how to influence the court throughout the entire case, from filing of the complaint to final judgment, in order to gain the best effect for the injured client. The evidence needed to prove the case against the government entity must also be developed and managed with a clear understanding of the government liabiliy laws in order to be able to put forward proof on all of the elements required for proof in court. The experienced government liabiliy attorney also knows that proper investigation of the facts of the accident and the government liability is essential to a successful government liability claim. The experienced government liability attorney also knows how develop the facts in relation to the law in a way that influences governmental entities to make serious efforts to settle a lawsuit by providing them with an understanding of how a jury could find liability against the government and how the verdict value could be a great risk to the government entity. The experienced government liability attorney understand how government entities make decisions to settle a case. Finally, should trial be necessary, the experienced government liability attorney knows how to present and prove a case a government liability case to a jury.

Government liability cases arise from the actions of the Federal government, the State of California, California counties, California cities, school districts, special districts, transportation authorities, and other governmental agencies. Government liability accidents include government vehicle accidents, government employee accidents, accidents resulting from the actions of government contractors, government equipment accidents, public bus accidents, public transportation accidents, and government property accidents. Dangerous highway, street or intersection lawsuits arise from the lack of appropriate road way signs, signals, beacons, barriers, markings, medians, shoulders, intersections, ramps, connectors and other roadway features.

Government liability lawsuits against the State of California, California counties, and California cities require a deep understanding of the California Tort Claims Act, the behavior and motivations of the California governmental entities in these types of lawsuits, and the behavior and motivations of the courts in handling these lawsuits. Similar experience is required to successfully handle Federal lawsuits under the Federal Tort Claims Act. You should consult with an attorney who has specialized knowledge of government liability laws and government claims for personal injury and wrongful death. Government liability lawsuits are require a thorough understanding of the claims procedures, litigation procedures, evidentiary law and trial procedures and practices specific to government liability law. David Lopez has more than 20 years of experience as a lead trial lawyer litigating and taking to trial a wide variety of government liability lawsuits, including wrongful death, serious personal injury, catastrophic injury, traumatic brain injury, severe fractures, and spinal cord injuries. As a lead trial lawyer for the California Department of Transportation for 20 years, David gained extensive experience handling a wide variety of government liability lawsuits, including highway and road design defect, government vehicle accidents, government property accidents, government equipment accidents, and accidents involving the wrongful acts of government, government employees, and government contractors.

David J. Lopez can protect your legal rights and help you assert your claim for compensation against any governmental agency, local, state, or federal. If you are suffering from an injury, or have suffered the loss of a loved one, as a result of a government vehicle accident, government property accident, or government employee accident, please contact David by e-mail at david@davidlopezlaw.com or by telephone at 619-985-6187 for a free consultation and case evaluation. David serves clients in San Diego and throughout California.

Dangerous Roads Attorney, Dangerous Highways Attorney, Dangerous Condition Attorney

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Experienced California Dangerous Roads, Dangerous Highways, and Dangerous Condition Attorney Serving Clients Throughout California.

The condition of dangerous roads often contribute to vehicle accidents, including car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents and bus accidents. There can be, and often is, more than one cause of a serious injury accident or wrongful death accident. Brain injury accidents, spine injury accidents and wrongful death accidents often involve dangerous highways, dangerous freeways, dangerous streets or dangerous roads and conditions that are not apparent to people.

To properly investigate an accidents involving dangerous roads, dangerous streets, dangerous freeways or dangerous highways, you need an attorney who is experienced and trained to recognize the elements of a dangerous condition of public property. Roadway design, traffic engineering, accident reconstruction, occupant biomechanics, and human factors are all involved in determining if a dangerous condition contributed to a personal injury accident or wrongful death accident. Following a freeway accident, highway accident, street accident, intersection accident, or road accident, you should contact a dangerous roads attorney who is experienced in dangerous condition litigation and who has the ability to analyze an accident and accident location to determine if a dangerous condition or dangerous road might have contributed to the accident.

David Lopez, Esq., has more than 20 years experience investigating, litigating and taking to trial dangerous condition cases involving dangerous freeways, dangerous highways, dangerous streets, dangerous intersections and dangerous roads in California. He was a lead trial lawyer for the California Department of Transportation for 20 years and litigated and took to trial a wide variety of serious injury and wrongful death dangerous condition cases involving most of the freeways and highways in southern California and a wide variety of city streets and county roads.

If you have been injured, or a family member has been injured, or a family member has been killed, on a dangerous road, dangerous freeway, dangerous highway, dangerous intersection, or dangerous street, you can call David at (619) 985-6187, or e-mail him at david@davidlopezlaw.com, for a free case evaluation and consultation. YOU HAVE ONLY 6 MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE ACCIDENT ON ANY STATE, CITY, OR COUNTY HIGHWAY, STREET, ROAD OR PROPERTY TO FILE A GOVERNMENT CLAIM. YOU MUST FILE A VALID GOVERNMENT CLAIM WITHIN 6 MONTHS OF THE DATE OF THE ACCIDENT TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. David Lopez has more than 20 years experience working with government claims. He knows how to protect your rights and the rights of your loved ones following accidents on dangerous roads, dangerous freeways, dangerous highways, dangerous intersections and dangerous streets. David is an extensively experienced and highly skilled dangerous roads attorney. He will diligently focus his skill and experience to achieve the best result he can obtain for you and your family.

Experienced California and San Diego Eminent Domain Attorney

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Experienced California Eminent Domain Attorney Serving Clients Throughout California.

Attorney David J. Lopez served as a lead trial lawyer for more than 20 years with the California Department of Transportation handling the most challenging eminent domain and condemnation lawsuits, including freeway projects, such as the 91 Freeway Project in Riverside County, the 805 Freeway Project in San Diego County, highway projects, street projects, interchange projects such as the 91 Freeway and Interstate 15 interchange in Riverside County, intersection projects, light rail projects such as the San Bernardino Light Rail Project or the Redlands Light Rail Project in San Bernardino County, rail projects, high-speed rail projects, water projects, sewer and storm water projects, school and university projects, utility and energy projects, such as the Sunrise Power Link Project, and government facility projects, such as Port of Entry projects or government buildings and complexes.

When the government is taking your property through eminent domain, also known as condemnation, and your life, home, business, farm, company, or commercial operation become disrupted and complicated. You find out how difficult and frustrating it is to try to get just compensation in a California eminent domain or condemnation case from impersonal governmental agencies. You find the legal world is complex and frustrating. In these circumstances, the knowledge, experience and skill of California eminent domain attorney David Lopez can help you.

David was a trial lawyer with the California Department of Transportation for more than 20 years, handling the most challenging, complex eminent domain and condemnation lawsuits. David Lopez knows how the government works to try to acquire private property at the lowest possible cost. He also knows that under the law you are owed the highest just compensation that the value of your property will bring. If the governmental agencies have not offered you full and fair just compensation for your property, then California eminent domain attorney David Lopez can help you obtain the compensation you are due. David understands the challenges and difficulties you are facing in trying to operate your business and live your life while the government is disrupting and complicating things for you by not treating your fairly and not offering you just compensation for your property.

As an experienced California eminent domain attorney, David works with the best eminent domain expert witnesses, knows how to put together a winning eminent domain team, and how to present an eminent domain case to a jury so they understand the true value of the property being taken. David Lopez handles eminent domain, condemnation, and inverse condemnation claims and lawsuits for people and businesses who have been harmed by government takings of private property. David serves clients throughout California.

As a California eminent domain attorney, David has the experience, knowledge, and skills needed to resolve a wide variety of eminent domain and condemnation lawsuits, even the most complex. Your case will be worked on by David personally and he will be personally accessible to you. We give each case individual attention and work diligently to obtain a just compensation settlement result for you following a eminent domain or condemnation action against your home, business, farm, or other private property.

David Lopez has handled eminent domain cases involving severance damage, lost business goodwill, business relocation, changed business operations, condemnation of businesses, condemnation of land, condemnation of residences, highest and best use of property, lost value of business fixtures, equipment and inventory, right to take issues, pre-condemnation damages, eminent domain and condemnation takings of home, business, farm, habitat land, and other private property. David will hold the governmental agency responsible for your loss accountable and make sure you are treated fairly and respectfully, and that you receive just compensation for the government's eminent domain taking of your private property. San Diego eminent domain attorney David Lopez provides you with experienced, knowledgeable legal representation in eminent domain, condemnation and inverse condemnation litigation, trials, and appeals before California State and Federal courts. David serves clients throughout California.

If your private property is being taken through eminent domain by a governmental enity or is being damaged in value by a governmental agency, please contact David at (619) 985-6187 or by e-mail at david@davidlopezlaw.com for a free consultation and case evaluation.

Experienced California Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Government Liability, and Eminent Domain Trial Lawyer

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When a serious injury accident or a wrongful death accident disrupts your life and the life of your family, you find out how difficult and frustrating it is to try to get compensation for a California personal injury claim or wrongful death claim from insurance companies and governmental agencies. The legal world is complex and impersonal. In these circumstances, the compassion, experience, knowledge and insight of California personal injury attorney, David Lopez, can help you and your family. In most cases, the insurance company or government agency responsible for your loss will not offer you a full and fair settlement of your claim. They will require you to jump through the hoops of their confusing claims process while you and your family struggle to handle the medical, emotional, and financial challenges that result from a serious personal injury accident or wrongful death accident. In these circumstances, you need a California personal injury lawyer on your side. David Lopez understands the challenges and difficulties you are facing and has the experience, intelligence, determination and integrity to help you and your family obtain the result you need through the legal system.

As a California personal injury lawyer, David Lopez handles claims and lawsuits for people who have been injured by the wrongful acts, negligence, or misconduct of others. He serves clients throughout California in both State and Federal court. David has been a trial lawyer handling serious injury and wrongful death lawsuits for more than 20 years. David has the experience and skills needed to handle an extensive variety of claims, even the most complex. Your case will be handled by David himself. David takes on only a limited number of serious injury and wrongful death cases each year, so that he can give your case the personal attention you deserve. We give each case individual attention and work diligently to obtain a fair settlement result for you that will recover the compensation you need for medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, and any other damages appropriate to your case. If the insurance company or government agency responsible for your loss has not offered you a full and fair settlement, they likely will not unless you retain an experienced attorney. When they make you struggle to get through their claims process while you and your family are trying to handle the medical, emotional, and financial challenges of a serious injury accident or wrongful death accident, then you need a California personal injury lawyer on your side. David Lopez understands the challenges and difficulties you and your family are facing and he is here to help you and your family. David Lopez has handled serious injury and wrongful death accident cases for more than 20 years including: car accidents, truck accidents, bus accidents, bicycle accidents, motorcycle accidents, construction accidents, pedestrian accidents, wrongful death accidents, serious injury accidents, premises liability accidents, defective product accidents, government property accidents, government vehicle accidents, railroad accidents, and heavy equipment accidents. We will hold the parties responsible for your loss accountable and make sure you and your family are treated fairly, respectfully, and justly. California personal injury lawyer David Lopez provides you with experienced legal representation in civil litigation, trials, and appeals before California State and Federal courts throughout California in cases involving serious injury accidents and wrongful death accidents. If you have been or a loved one has been injured, or a loved on has died, as a result of an accident, please contact David by e-mail at david@davidlopezlaw.com or call him at (619) 985-6187 for a free consultation and case evaluation and to find out how we can help you and your family.