Personal Injury

I, and my entire firm, fight for justice against companies, corporations, and individuals who hesitate or refuse to take responsibility for their actions. Because our services are in demand, we are typically confined to helping those who have been seriously and permanently injured or wronged.

Personal Injury

• Car/Auto Accidents
• Wrongful Death
• Medical Malpractice

Accidents & Personal Injury

• Construction Site Injuries
• Slip & Fall

Dangerous Products/Product Liability

• Design Defects
• Manufacturing Defects

Intentional Injuries

• Dog Bites & Animal Attacks

Professional Malpractice

• Legal Malpractice

CA, Dec 1994
Bar Number: 172522

U.S. District Court, Eastern
District of California; U.S. District Court, Northern District, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and California.

Alameda County Bar Association, Contra Costa County Bar Association, Solano County Bar Association, California Bar

Over 100 hours of seminars and classes in trial work and litigation in the last four years.

Defendant doctor unnecessarily removed the ovaries of a 29 year old woman, which later caused the need for an emergency hysterectomy. During the hysterectomy, the doctor sliced into the woman's bladder several times, requiring extensive surgeries to repair it. The doctor had a criminal record which had led California's medical licensing board to impose probation of his license to practice medicine. Nonetheless, the medical group and the HMO kept the doctor on their list of "preferred" providers. Plaintiffs sued the doctor for the two negligent surgeries and the medical group and the HMO for keeping the doctor on their list of providers.

Defendant's employee made an illegal lane change on the freeway propelling the plaintiff from the highway and causing her car to roll. As a result of the collision, plaintiff suffered eight left rib fractures, an open left humerus fracture with a degloving injury of the left forearm and elbow, a left clavicle fracture, left zygomatic complex fractures with a left orbital wall fracture, left temporal bone fractures, and left seventh nerve palsy.

Norman Doe was walking in a marked crosswalk when a tow truck driver struck him. He suffered head trauma, pelvic fractures, a broken wrist, and broken ribs. Norman Doe had to spend three weeks in a hospital to recuperate. The head injuries impaired his sense of smell and taste as well as his ability to concentrate and to control his emotions.

Mr. Doe (deceased) approached his neighbor and started a heated argument over a parking spot. The argument escalated and the neighbor punched Mr. Doe, who fell and struck his head against the concrete sidewalk. Mr. Doe sustained fatal injuries from the head trauma. After filing a lawsuit, Mrs. Doe recovered the policy limits of the neighbor's homeowner's insurance policy.

The plaintiff lived in defendant's apartment complex in a first floor apartment with a sliding glass door that led from the apartment to her patio which was separated from the parking lot by a wooden gate. Because the plaintiff did not own a car, she seldom used the sliding door to access the parking lot and she rarely walked from her patio into the parking lot at night. One night, the plaintiff walked out of her sliding glass door toward the parking lot. None of the three lights that should have illuminated the parking lot were lit. Plaintiff tripped over a parking beam and suffered a dislocated knee, fractured femur, ligamental knee disruption, and sensory loss on the top of her foot.

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California

Our firm represents only people injured in California. We specialize in the areas of personal injury and wrongful death (such as auto and construction accidents), products liability (such as when a defective product causes injury), medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and other professional negligence causes of action (such as accounting malpractice).

We represent only plaintiffs.

Balamuth Harrington was founded by Barry Balamuth, my father, in 1992. We maintain a family atmosphere and care very much about our clients.

I went straight from college to law school and straight from law school
to my present employment.

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(925) 254-0778

Monday through Friday
7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

No

Spanish and Mandarin

We work on a contingency fee.

Not applicable. We work on contingency fee.

Yes.

We typically don't use a retainer.