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Los Angeles, CA – June 20, 2017 – A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sided with more than 130,000 class members, all CalPERS Long Term Care policyholders, in their class action against CalPERS for unjust premium increases, permitting their claims to proceed to trial. The class action stems from CalPERS’ decision in 2013 to raise premiums for its Long-Term Care insurance on more than 130,000 policyholders across California.  Many of those po... Read More

Irvine, CA – Bentley & More LLP has named Clare Lucich as the firm’s newest partner. Ms. Lucich has been with the firm since its inception in 2016 and her practice includes products liability, insurance bad faith, personal injury, and governmental claims. She has worked on a number of high profile cases and trials, including as one of the primary members of the trial team that secured:  a $1.885 million products liability verdict, a $3.... Read More

Gregory L. Bentley has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America. The induction ceremony at which Mr. Bentley became a Fellow took place recently before an audience of 700 persons during the recent Induction Ceremony at the 2018 Spring Meeting of the College in Phoenix, Arizona. The meeting had a total attendance of 850. Founded in 1950, the College is composed of the best ... Read More

Greg Bentley and Keith More of Bentley & More LLP settled a $30 million catastrophic personal injury case on behalf of a woman who was severely injured when a piece of a garbage truck broke off on the 22 freeway and came crashing through her windshield, striking her directly in the face. In November of 2015, a then-26-year-old woman was driving her car on the westbound 22 freeway in Garden Grove, CA, when the drive shaft of a garbage tr... Read More

Jaimi Groothuis was sworn in as President of the Orange County Women Lawyers Association on December 12, 2017. Ms. Groothuis joined Bentley & More LLP in 2010, and has successfully recovered millions of dollars for her clients in large and catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, premises liability and products liability cases. She is committed to advocating for clients injured as a result of individual or corporate wrongdoing and ... Read More

Keith More was interviewed by the Riverside Press Enterprise in a story examining how the California Worker’s Compensation system is failing the people impacted by the horrible terrorist shooting in San Bernardino two years ago. The article states “Adjustors also send treatment requests to out-of-state outside review physicians with the wrong specialty for a particular injury — a practice the insurance industry has fought to continue, More sai... Read More

Greg Bentley, CAOC President and founding partner at Bentley & More, cowrote a piece calling out Wells Fargo for trying to cover up its dirty tactics by robing its own customers of their constitutional rights. The piece, which appeared in the Los Angeles Daily News highlights Wells Fargo’s attempt to use mandatory arbitration clauses to hide the creation of 3.5 million bogus accounts using their customers’ personal information. Mr. Bentle... Read More