Bentley & More LLP Partner Matthew W. Clark was interviewed for the June 4th spotlight in OrangeCountyLawyers.Com discussing the implications of State Farm & Allstate leaving California.
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Bentley & More LLP is featured in this month’s Orange Coast Magazine “Power Attorneys” edition. The firm has over 35+ years litigating a wide variety of cases with a focus on Catastrophic Personal Injury, Plaintiff Workers’ Compensation & Bad Faith Insurance. We have a team of highly focused, disciplined and hard-working attorneys with the common goal of serving our clients. Our utmost priority is to obtain justice by understanding the needs of our clients and telling their individual stories. We are passionate about the law and are committed to making a difference with our clients and the community. We are in the business of helping people.
If you or someone you love has been injured, please Reach Out to us today. Every story is unique…let us help you tell yours.
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On Sunday, February 5, 2023, a woman was tragically struck and killed by multiple vehicles along South Coast Highway in Laguna Beach. She was crossing near the 30600 block, south of Nyes Place, when she was struck by oncoming southbound traffic. This is part of a series of troubling pedestrian deaths, accidents, and near misses along PCH in recent years. Although Bentley & More LLP is collecting information and has requested the traffic accident history along PCH, even the Mayor of Laguna Beach, Bob Whalen, has remarked to the OC Register that “Coast Highway is owned and operated by Caltrans and we will reach out to them to determine if they can implement additional safety improvements to make the roadway safer for pedestrians. We need to hold Caltrans accountable to find safety solutions to avoid more tragic accidents in our City.”
Holding Caltrans accountable is a difficult, but necessary, step to protect the public from further incidents like the one that occurred on February 5. Bentley & More has decades of experience litigating “dangerous conditions” of public property cases against entities like Caltrans when their long neglect of dangerous roadways causes incidents that injure the public. Namely, under Cal. Government Code Section 835, a public entity may be held directly liable for dangerous conditions that create a substantial risk of injury when used with due care in a reasonably foreseeable manner, when the condition proximately caused the injury, when the condition created a reasonably foreseeable risk of the kind of injury suffered, and when the condition was created by the public entity or the entity had actual or constructive notice of the condition. Each of those necessary prerequisites must be present to pursue a successful dangerous condition of public property case.
With respect to PCH, even a cursory search shows a high-speed roadway with long stretches without sufficient crosswalks, signals, signage, lighting, markings, and other devices and signals to protect pedestrians and the motoring public. Pedestrians are routinely forced to cross without sufficient protection – protection that Caltrans has been long aware PCH lacks and failed to remedy. And unfortunately, pedestrian accidents and near-misses have become all too common in recent years, leading to a spate of preventable deaths, including two in the last two weeks.
Bentley & More LLP joins the rising chorus of voices urging Caltrans to make South Coast Highway a safer, more appropriate roadway that does a better job of protecting the public. Unfortunately, as is all too common with public entities, litigation may be the only way to hold Caltrans accountable for its failures.
-Gregory L. Bentley, Co-Founding Partner of Bentley & More LLP
Read MorePartners, Greg Bentley & Clare Lucich obtained a confidential 8-figure policy limits settlement against building owner and product developer installing equipment over a skylight which shattered causing our client to fall 22 feet. The case settled following the completion of 17 depositions, the workup of 6 experts and a policy limits C.C.P 998 Offer to Compromise.
In cases ranging from Product Liability, Government Entity Liability, Construction Accidents, Policy Limits, & Trucking Accidents – Greg Bentley & Clare Lucich have been holding Defendants accountable and successfully making a difference in our clients’ lives to the tune of $72 million since Jan 1!! Stay tuned for more as we break down each of these success stories.
Bentley & More LLP proudly congratulates Co-Founder Greg Bentley on being recognized as Daily Journal 2022 Top Plaintiff Lawyers in California. Click the photo for the full article.
STOPPING A SUB ROSA SURPRISE by Clare Lucich, Esq. (left) and Farnaz Salessi, Esq. (Click the image for the full article)
Co-Founder Keith More has been recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2022 Lawyer of the Year in Workers’ Compensation Law.
Now in his 33rd year of practice, Keith P. More still has the desire and motivation to take on the most challenging, life changing cases. If you are reading this, then you know it is Keith’s fierce drive, compassion and experience that separates him from all other lawyers.
Beyond the personal accolades is a lawyer who cares about those he represents. For one 22 year old tetraplegic whose spinal cord injuries resulted from his unprotected fall through a sky light, attorney Keith P. More obtained a settlement of $14.7 million, the largest award in California workers’ compensation history. Over his 33 year career, Keith has taken on some of the largest corporations in the world. Besides the in court awards, Keith is most proud of his ability to connect with his clients. It’s not just about being the lawyer. It’s about being their voice and telling their story. Keith goes the extra mile and sits in on Team Conferences, meets with doctors, vendors and therapists. If you or a loved one are in need of Keith’s services, whether you were injured in a motor vehicle accident, construction site incident , fall or work related injury make Keith a part of your team.
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Congratulations to Greg Bentley & Keith More on their 12th consecutive year being named amongst the prestigious attorneys in Southern California and Orange County’s 2022 Super Lawyers. Jose Gonzalez joins the co-founders as a first-time recipient.
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Bentley & More LLP provides zealous, national legal representation to consumers and employees across many practice areas, including insurance bad faith, catastrophic personal injury, product liability, workers’ compensation, and government entity liability. While effective in resolving many kinds of conflicts outside of litigation, Bentley & More LLP has a proven track record of fearlessness in taking matters to trial and beyond. The firm particularly specializes in difficult “crossover” matters that require expertise across practice areas, including thorny issues of insurance coverage in personal injury matters, and cases that combine elements of worker’s compensation and third-party liability.
Founded in 2016 by Greg Bentley and Keith More, who have both been selected to the Super Lawyers list for 13 years, Bentley & More LLP’s attorneys have decades of litigation and trial experience representing and fiercely advocating for consumers, workers, and victims.
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