Injury Lawyer for Los Angeles and Orange County

If someone else’s carelessness put you in an emergency room, you have two problems: getting better and getting paid for it. Fred Yadegar handles the second one. He represents injured people across Los Angeles County and Orange County, deals with the insurance companies directly, and takes every injury case on a contingency fee, so you can focus on recovery.

Six kinds of injury cases we handle

Most injury claims in Southern California come down to a driver, a property owner, or an insurance company that didn’t do its job. Fred’s injury practice covers:

• Car accidents: rear-end crashes, freeway pileups, left-turn collisions, and the insurance fight that follows.
• Insurance company disputes: lowball offers, stalled claims, denied uninsured motorist benefits, and bad faith by your own carrier.
• Slip and falls: wet floors, broken stairs, and buckled sidewalks at stores, apartment buildings, and public property.
• Uber or Lyft accidents: passengers, drivers, and anyone hit by a rideshare vehicle, with the company’s insurance sorted by period.
• Pedestrian accidents: crosswalk collisions and hit-and-runs, where injuries are severe and fault is often disputed.
• Serious injuries: brain and spinal cord injuries, surgical fractures, burns, amputations, and wrongful death claims.

How the fee works

Injury cases are handled on a contingency fee. There is no upfront cost and no hourly bill. Fred’s fee comes out of the recovery at the end, and only if there is one. If you don’t get paid, we don’t get paid.

That arrangement changes who carries the risk. The insurance company has lawyers on salary. With a contingency fee, so do you.

The clock is already running

California gives you two years from the date of injury to file most personal injury lawsuits (Code Civ. Proc. §335.1). Two years sounds like plenty. It isn’t, because a case takes months to build before anything gets filed.

Some deadlines are far shorter. If a government entity is involved, a city bus, a county road defect, an LAPD vehicle, you must file a written government claim within six months (Gov. Code §911.2). Deadlines for minors and certain late-discovered injuries differ. Exceptions exist, so call before you assume you have time.

Partly your fault? You still have a case

California is a pure comparative negligence state (Li v. Yellow Cab, 1975). Your recovery is reduced by your share of the blame, but it is not wiped out. If a jury finds you 30 percent at fault, you collect 70 percent of your damages. Adjusters count on you not knowing this. Plenty of people walk away from valid claims because someone told them the crash was “partly their fault.” Don’t be one of them.

What to do in the first 72 hours

What you do in the three days after an injury shapes everything that follows.

• Get medical care the same day, even if you feel “mostly fine.” Gaps in treatment become the insurer’s favorite argument.
• Photograph everything: the scene, the vehicles, the hazard, your injuries.
• Get names and phone numbers for every witness before they leave.
• Report the crash to the police, or the fall to the property manager, and get the report number.
• Do not give a recorded statement to the other side’s insurance company.
• Stay off social media about the incident.
• Write down what happened while it’s fresh, including what the other person said.
• Call a lawyer before you sign anything.

Why call Fred

Fred Yadegar is a California attorney who represents injured people in Los Angeles and Orange County. His office reviews every message and calls you back, usually the same business day. He explains where you stand in plain terms, tells you honestly if a claim isn’t worth pursuing, and handles the insurer so you don’t have to. Tell us what happened.