Practice area: Wrongful Death Litigation
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy has been one of the leading firms in California handling catastrophic and serious personal injury cases.
Case examples include:
Murillo, et al. v. National Railroad Passenger Corporation, et al.
Contra Costa Superior Court Case No. C04-00825
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy successfully represented the family of an elderly couple who were killed by an Amtrak train while their car was trapped at a dangerously designed grade railroad crossing in Crockett, California in an action against the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak”), Union Pacific Railroad Company and the State of California Department of Transportation.
Manlapaz, et al. v. Bills Trucking, et al.
Santa Clara Superior Court Case No. 105CV053215
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy represented the family of a woman who was killed after being crushed by a semi-truck with two dirt hauling trailers while she was crossing the street near a construction site in Mountain View, California.
In re MGM Grand
Hotel Fire Litigation
570 F.Supp. 913 (D.Nev. 1983)
MDL consolidated litigation by personal injury wrongful death claims
in the mamoth fire that destroyed the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Carnaham v.
State of California
Fresno County Superior Court No. 474276-3 (1991)
Action against the State of California and more than 100 separate
defendants on behalf of scores of individuals killed or injured in
a severe dust storm on I-5 over the Thanksgiving weekend in 1991.
Hyman v. Nahi
Orange Co. Superior Court No. 794706
Represented victims of balcony collapse against landlord and termite
company in a case involving slum landlord condititions.
Malhotra v.
Nathan
San Francisco Superior No. 976634 (1999)
Represented 13 victims of personal injuries and wrongful death arising
out of Franklin Street balcony collapse in 1996 in San Francisco.