Cerritos Insurance Claims Lawyers

Jihad M. Smaili, Esq., is a principal and partner of the firm Smaili & Associates, P.C., in Santa Ana. Mr. Smaili graduated from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (magna cum laude, law review editor), where he received numerous academic awards, and was immediately admitted to the practice of law in September of 2008 in Ohio and was appointed Assistant Attorney General for the State of Ohio in its Corrections Litigation Section in Columbus, Ohio. After serving in that position for a few years, Mr. Smaili was appointed as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in the General Felony Unit for Cuyahoga County...

Melissa Fox, Founder and Senior Attorney of The Melissa Fox Law Firm, is an experienced civil litigator who has practiced law in Orange County for 20 years. A graduate of Brandeis University and Tulane University School of Law, Melissa is a member of the Bars of the State of California and the United States Tax Court. She also holds a California Real Estate Broker License. Equally adept at transactional advice, negotiation, litigation, and the enforcement of judgments, Melissa has earned a reputation as a leader in the legal profession.

Melissa is also a dedicated community leader. Melissa currently serves on the...

Evan Selik is a partner at McCathern, PLLC in the law firm's Los Angeles office. Mr. Selik represents employees in wrongful termination litigation and employment discrimination cases and he also handles wage and hour class actions and consumer class actions.

Mr. Selik earned his Juris Doctorate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan in 2006, where he graduated in the top 5% of his class. Prior to attending law school, he graduated with a double major in political science and Spanish from Indiana University in 2003.

Evan Selik’s vision is to provide his clients with aggressive representation to level the playing...

Arash Khorsandi, Esq. received his B.S. degree in Real Estate Finance & Development from the prestigious Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and shortly thereafter completed his Juris Doctorate degree at the Pepperdine University School of Law, located in the heart of Malibu, California. Mr. Khorsandi is also on the Board of Directors of The LEV Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting active, balanced, and responsible lifestyles in our youth. Please visit www.TheLEVFoundation.org to learn more about their community programs and education initiatives. Mr. Khorsandi is a member of the National Association of Personal Injury...

Gerald Marcus began his career as a licensed private investigator, developing and preparing personal injury cases for one of the largest personal injury law firms in Los Angeles County at the time. His investigative work (1980-1986) overlapped with his time at the Southern California Institute of Law (1982-1985) at the Ventura Colleges of Law campus. There, Mr. Marcus’ work earned him honors from the Sandra O’Connor society.
In 1987, Mr. Marcus founded The Law Offices of Gerald L. Marcus and the Professional Accident Injury Network, Inc. (P.A.I.N.), to represent accident victims. Both are run according to his...

At R. Steven Peters – Injury & Accident Lawyers, we have successfully represented thousands of clients in personal injury cases involving car accidents, motorcycle accidents, truck accidents and other acts of negligence. We are one of only a few firms in Southern California that can claim recoveries of more than $625,000,000. We take each case very seriously and opposing counsel, along with the insurance companies takes us seriously. When you retain R. Steven Peters insurance adjusters take notice that they’re up against one of the most experienced injury lawyers in Orange County.

We will get to know you and your...

We are a life insurance law firm in Los Angeles. I received my law degree from UCLA and began practice in 1974. Throughout most of my career, I represented consumers and small businesses in civil litigation involving real estate and business. For approximately seven years from 1999-2006 I was licensed as a life insurance agent, securities representative and compliance officer. In late 2006, I resumed a full-time law practice and focused on life insurance related issues. I have continued to focus on life insurance and have handled more than 300 life insurance matters over the past fifteen years, including matters...

Facing insurance disputes can cause a great deal of hardship in anyone's situation. If you are being denied a claim, or if you are not receiving the funds that you are entitled to, it is imperative that you seek the assistance of an experienced attorney who knows how to help you fight for your rights. my name is Timothy Morris from Gianelli & Morris, and I am a Los Angeles insurance attorney with many years of experience. Contact my office today to discuss your situation and to pursue the results that you need for your future.

After years of practice at one of the world’s largest law firms, the California Court of Appeal, Orange County District Attorney’s Office, and the United States Department of Justice, Mr. Zandi joined with his mentor, friend, and one of California’s leading trial lawyers, Shawn Steel, to form Steel Zandi, APLC. Mr. Zandi is nationally recognized as one of the leading experts in Qui Tam and state and federal whistleblower litigation and policy. While serving as an assistant United States attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Mr. Zandi led the DOJ’s Affirmative Civil Enforcement Task Force (ACE). As director of...

I represent corporate and individual clients in a wide range of business and real estate litigation matters.

Serving all of California.

Vibhu Talwar is an aggressive litigator with more than a decade of legal experience. His practice involves complex business litigation and catastrophic injury. Throughout his legal career, he has assisted businesses and individuals in recovering millions of dollars. Mr. Talwar has successfully handled cases involving misappropriation of trade secrets, violation of anti-solicitation agreements, breach of contract, dangerous pharmaceutical drugs, aviation accidents, defective tires, and catastrophic motor-vehicle accidents. Mr. Talwar began his legal career working for Judge Terry J. Hatter, then Chief Judge of the United Stated District Court for the Central District of California. Prior to opening Fisher...

I've tried over the years to avoid the pitfalls of bad lawyers. I try to be humble, polite and hard working. I never lie to a client. I strive for excellent results for a fair price. I never steal from my clients. A good nightâs sleep is worth far more than ill-gotten gains. The highest duty of every lawyer is loyalty to his client. A good lawyer returns calls from his clients and works on his cases to move them along as quickly as the court allows. I show clients what they canât do for themselves....

Upon graduation from law school and becoming an attorney in 1994, Paul Lee began working with an employment law firm specializing in representing police officers. Later he worked for an insurance defense firm representing various insurance companies. After seeing, first hand, how insurance companies handled various personal injury claims he decided that he needed to represent the injured parties to ensure that they were represented fairly . He formed what is now known as AA-Accident Attorneys, P.L.C. Mr. Lee currently serves the local community as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Superior Court in addition to serving his clients...

John F. Ramey has practiced for over 22 years in Southern California since relocating to the region after practicing law in North Carolina. He has practiced in the area of construction law, personal injury, attorney and medical malpractice and products liability. John has represented many prominent contractors, manufacturing corporations, property management companies and retailers in cases of construction defect, work site injury and premises liability claims. He has extensive trial experience in both state and federal courts, and has tried over forty-five cases in state and federal courts. His trial experience includes personal injury, property damage, construction defects and professional malpractice...

Phil Cook is a first-chair business trial lawyer with experience in jury and bench trials, as well as domestic and international arbitrations before AAA, FINRA and ICC panels. He has argued appeals in the Ninth Circuit and the California Court of Appeal.

Although Phil focuses on policyholder insurance recovery, corporate governance and partnership disputes, and securities and financial products claims, he has represented clients in individual and class action cases involving contract disputes, Business and Professions Code section 17200 claims and other business torts, antitrust and trade regulation, patent and trademark infringement, trade secrets, product liability and toxic torts, governmental...

Thomas Palffy is a construction law specialist serving Los Angeles, CA. and the surrounding areas. Mr. Palffy has been selected as a "Super Lawyer" and has an AV Preeminent Rating 5.0 out 5 on Martindale-Hubbell.

I graduated from UCLA School of Law in 1980. I am proud of the thousands of clients that I have been able to assist in the past 40 years. Many have been Spanish speaking and from disadvantaged communities. I have had the pleasure of obtaining multimillion dollar verdicts for my clients. I have also represented clients with much smaller claims, yet I keep all my clients well informed of the progress on their legal matter and meet frequently with them. In addition to my personal injury practice, I also have a thriving criminal defense practice.
Last year my daughter,...

Andrew Jay Waxler is a partner with Waxler Carner Weinreb Brodsky LLP. Mr. Waxler specializes in defending professionals in malpractice actions and represents insurers in professional liability coverage disputes. Mr. Waxler has written numerous professional liability policies. Mr. Waxler has contributed to various publications, including the California Practice Guide for Insurance Litigation published by the Rutter Group. Mr. Waxler also frequently lectures on loss prevention issues for California lawyers. Mr. Waxler previously was a partner at a large San Diego firm where he served as Co-General Counsel of the firm. Mr. Waxler has also...

M. Scott Koller joined InfoLawGroup LLP as a Counsel in November 2013. Mr. Koller’s practice focuses on information technology, privacy and data security matters. Mr. Koller also has extensive experience handling a wide range of complex litigation in both federal and state courts. Before his law firm experience, he developed a background in information technology when he founded System Operation Services, an IT consulting firm. Later, Mr. Koller became the Director of Pre-Funding Operations at Technology Venture Alliance, an early stage venture capital firm. Prior to joining InfoLawGroup, Mr. Koller was an associate in the Sacramento offices...

Carolyn Tan started at DeWitt Algorri & Algorri in 2010 and is now a Partner who practices in the areas of catastrophic injury, bad faith insurance, wrongful death, premises liability, products liability, and public entity claims. She has successfully defeated complex pre-trial motions and has settled products liability cases against amusement parks and car manufacturers. She has tried cases with Mark Algorri and Patrick Nolan, many which have resulted in multi-million dollar verdicts.

Mr. Kaiho is the primary attorney at Dragan & Kaiho. Born in Yokohama, Japan, Mr. Kaiho is fluent in Japanese and intimately familiar with the Japanese culture. With respect to his undergraduate education, Mr. Kaiho attended Boston University, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations. After graduation, Mr. Kaiho moved to Tokyo, Japan, where he worked for a multi-national chemical manufacturing company and was a law clerk in a Japanese law firm. For his legal education, Mr. Kaiho graduated from Arizona State University with his JD/MBA, specializing in business law. During law school, Mr. Kaiho was a judicial law...