DUI Accident

Parking valet is injured after he drives a guest's car home and then gets into defendant's Maserati to be driven back to the club.

Defendant's insurer, as intervenor, says wet pavement caused the accident and that plaintiff was partially at fault.

After heavy drinking, two co-workers head to a club. A single-vehicle accident occurs and the passenger is severely injured. Comparative fault of driver and passenger is argued.

When DUI driver causes accident, his out-of-state father is blamed for loaning him the car.

$15 million verdict against employer after employee becomes intoxicated while in scope of job and injures client.

Drunk driver rear-ends another car on freeway at 2 a.m. Moderate injuries. Plaintiffs beat their 998 offer.

Course and scope of employment is deciding factor in verdict against San Diego restaurant.

Young man, driving to work in his parents’ uninsured car, is hit by drunk driver and rendered a quadriplegic. Insurer refuses $75K combined policy limit demands.

DUI driver crosses center line in SUV and collides with family's sedan, causing severe injuries.  Minimal policy limits, but litigation for bad faith against insurer has commenced.

Alcoholic adult son takes car while his parents are in Arizona. After DUI crash, plaintiff passenger sues parents for negligent entrustment.

Insurer argues that arbitration should not have proceeded due to plaintiff's failure to pursue workers' compensation claim and plaintiff's last-minute claims for future medical treatment.