Publications by Greene Broillet & Wheeler

Alan Van Gelder:

• Defense Medical Exams In Brain-Injury Cases
• Potential Liability For Recommending Rejection of Policy Limits Demands
• Marijuana Use and the Civil Jury Trial
• Surviving the Nightmare Scenario of the Lying Client
• Distracted Drivers: Seeking Punitive Damages
• The Actual-Injury Provision and the Statute of Limitations
• Pedestrians: Walking the Line of Dangerous Condition Claims
• Marijuana Use and the Civil Jury Trial
• Combatting the “Anything Is Possible” Expert

Aaron Osten:

• Offsetting The Delays Faced By Victims of Workplace Retaliation
• Private Doctrine Ruling Has No Business Being Published
• The Importance of Protective Orders in Product Liability Cases
• The Power of “Me-Too” Evidence in California Employment Cases

Ivan Puchalt:

• Out on a Limb: How to Litigate Against Dangerous Trees
• Whistleblower Protections May Help to Improve Patient Safety
• Standing of Parents to Sue for the Wrongful Death of Their Married Child
• Back to Nature: Beware of Immunity Traps

Christian Nickerson:

• The Actual-Injury Provision and the Statute of Limitations
• The Party-Bus Industry
• Whistleblower Protections May Help to Improve Patient Safety

Molly McKibben:

• Ruling Says Exclusion of ‘#MeToo’ Evidence Is Reversible Error
• California Doctors Can No Longer Hide Accusations of Sexual Misconduct from Their Patients' Thanks to a New Law
• Governmental Immunities that Preclude Bicyclists from Prevailing in Their Actions
• Don’t Trip on the Immunity “Trail”

Christine Spagnoli:

• General Motors Bankruptcy 2.0: Lessons Learned
• A Cite for Sore Eyes: Buell-Wilson
• Punitive Damages Evidence: The Scope of the Auto Manufacturer

Mark Quigley:

• Standing of Parents to Sue for the Wrongful Death of Their Married Child

Scott H. Carr:

• The “Reality” of Idea Theft
• Measure of Damages for Interference with a Shareholder’s Ability to Sell Stock
• Establishing Causation and Damages in Transactional Malpractice Cases After Viner V. Sweet

Bruce Broillet:

• Quiet Reflections on Profound Loss—Helping the Jury Do Justice for the Wrongful Death of a Child
• Skylight Falls at Epidemic Levels: Turning Point for Consumer Safety

Geoffrey S. Wells:

• Arguing General Damages at Trial
• Get the Most Out of Your Experts While Maintaining Cost Control
• Back to Nature: Beware of Immunity Traps

Legal Issues in the News

• Braking System Problems and Fire Hazards
  This article examines the Chrysler recall that affects "well over half a million Jeep Cherokee, Dodge Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country vehicles."
• California Rental Car Safety Bill Progresses Through Legislature
  A discussion of the Houck Rental Care Safety Act (California Assembly Bill 753) that is "intended to prevent rental car companies from renting or selling defective automobiles that are subject to a federal safety recall notice."
• California Supreme Court Issues Major Decision on Medical Expenses
  This article reviews changes to the "collateral source" rule that the California Supreme Court implemented in Howell v. Hamilton Meats.
• FMCSA Considers Adding Accountability Measure to Trucking Safety Data
  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is making an effort to collect additional accident data, and due to this effort "commercial drivers and motor carrier companies could use the agency's DataQ system to submit police accident reports that show accountability in a particular incident"
• New Traffic Safety Laws in California Could Reduce Vehicle Accidents
  A review of the measures that California lawmakers passed in an effort to create safer streets and highways.
• Protecting California Bicyclists
  An examination of the rights granted to bicyclists by the California Vehicle Code and other laws, as well as a discussion of bicycle safety tips.
• Recall of Flammable Blair Robes Re-announced
  Following nine deaths caused by robes catching fire, The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the maker of Blair chenille robes "re-announced their April 2009 ‘urgent recall’ of the full-length robes and similar products."
• Recent California Train Accidents: LA Metro Passenger Critically Injured
  A recap of a series of train accidents that all took place during the final two weeks of October 2010.
• Study Reveals Extensive Online Sales of Recalled Vehicles
  A study by vehicle information system Carfax shows that "more that 2.7 million used cars were listed for sale in 2011 that had not been brought in for free repairs mandated by an auto recall."
• California Tour Bus Accident Brings Sorrow, Questions
  A discussion of federal bus safety regulations in the wake of the fatal February 2013 Scapada Magicas bus accident on Route 38 near Yucaipa, California.
• Toyota Sudden Acceleration Defect Case: $1.1 Billion Settlement
  This article examines the resolution of the lawsuit where plaintiffs "claimed that Toyota's failure to disclose the defects reduced the value of the vehicles, causing Toyota owners to lose money."
• Unsafe Toy Sales Continue
  An examination of the Trouble in Toyland list of unsafe toys and W.A.T.C.H. (World Against Toys Causing Harm, Inc.) 10 Worst Toys list for 2009.
• Vehicle Black Boxes: Attempts to Improve Motor Vehicle Accident Data
  Examination and follow up to a L.A. Times article about "ongoing efforts to make automobile event data recorders (EDRs or "black boxes") mandatory on all vehicles sold in the U.S."
• California Limo Fire: Spotlight on The Causes of Car Fires
  This article looks at vehicle fires and auto defects in the wake of a limo fire that killed five people and injured five others on the San Mateo Bridge.

Legal Practice

• A Giant Among Our Great Plaintiff Firms
  Jeffrey Rudman, Advocate Magazine, November 2020