Clare Lucich

Ms. Lucich’s Experience Includes the Following:

• Assisted in achieving a more than $720 million class action settlement in the action entitled Holly Wedding, et al. v. California Public Employees’ Retirement System, et al., LASC Case No. BC51744. The long-running case concerns the actions of the CalPERS Long Term Care Program, which despite years of promises that premiums would remain steady and stable, implemented a targeted 85% premium increase in 2015/2016 on tens of thousands of CalPERS Long Term Care policyholders.
• Obtaining a $30 million settlement for a woman who was catastrophically injured as a result of a trucking company’s failure to properly maintain its fleet of vehicles.
• Obtaining a $16.5 million settlement against the City of Pasadena on a dangerous road design case involving insufficient corner sight distance that led to a devastating T-bone collision resulting in significant injuries to our 35-year-old client wo was riding a motorcycle at the time.
• Earning  $14 million settlement for a young technician injured while working on the job.
• Obtaining a high eight-figure settlement for a severely injured bicyclist who was struck by a truck in a heavily disputed liability case.
• Earning a $7.9 million settlement on a bus accident case involving clients with multiple orthopedic injuries including a femur fracture, foot fracture, and multiple rib fractures, necessitating surgery. After three years of litigation, Defendants finally admitted that Defendants’ negligence was the sole cause of the crash.
• Obtaining a $3.2 million settlement for a young woman who tragically fractured multiple ribs and suffered a L4-5 annular tear and cervical spine injuries requiring multiple injections when she was rear-ended on the freeway by a government employee.
• Serving as the lead associate of the litigation team that obtained a $12 million wrongful death settlement against the City of Los Angeles on behalf of the family of Alice Gruppioni, an Italian newlywed tragically killed on her honeymoon when struck by a reckless vehicle on the Venice Beach Boardwalk. The $12 million settlement represents the largest wrongful death settlement reached by the City of Los Angeles. (Gruppioni v. The City of Los Angeles)
• Representing clients injured in a crosswalk when a driver, due to the public entity’s failure to install proper safety devices, failed to see them and struck the plaintiffs, causing life-long injuries. Combined settlement with the driver’s employer and the public entity resulted in a high seven-figure settlement.
• Serving as the lead litigation team member that obtained an eight-figure settlement in an insurance bad faith coverage dispute.
• Being a member of the litigation team that secured a $5.85 million settlement for a temporary worker who was severely injured while disassembling all-metal firework stands (Pinon v. American Promotional Events, Inc. dba TNT Fireworks and American Promotional Events, Inc. – West).
• Obtaining a $3.8 million verdict in Orange County Superior Court on behalf of a young man who sustained a degloving injury to his dominant right hand while in metal shop class (Zavala v NMUSD). Ms. Lucich helped prove that the disc sander the student was using violated Cal OSHA safety guidelines and that the dangerous machine should not have been used in class.
• Obtaining a $1.885 million jury verdict in Riverside Superior Court in a first-of-its-kind product liability case involving an e-cigarette device that exploded while charging (Jennifer Ries v. VapCigs et al.).
• Securing a $3.2 million verdict in a wrongful death and catastrophic personal injury trial in Bakersfield involving a motor vehicle accident (Rojas v HFS Enterprises).