California Personal Injury & Accident Lawyers

Ehline Law Firm, PC.

50 Francisco Street
#460
San Francisco, California 94133
USA

(415) 684-7688‎ or (888) 480-9786

www.ehlinelaw.com/

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Ehline Law Firm P.C. works with the best personal injury attorneys. We litigate serious injuries resulting from accidents in California and at sea. Our accident lawyers are recognized by local courts and insurance defense firms as experienced, compassionate local Los Angeles injury lawyers who recover money for people who suffered harm in Riverside, LA and Orange County cities like Newport Beach, Marina del Rey, San Bruno, San Francisco County, Malibu Beach, Redondo Beach, Rancho Mirage and Huntington Beach, with professional excellence.

We are also a law firm of criminal defense attorneys with years of experience in handling Los Angeles and Orange County DUI (aka "driving under the influence") arrests. Our lead Los Angeles DUI attorney, Michael Ehline, worked under an appellate justice, as well as for the head of the criminal prosecution law and motion department at the LA City Attorney's Offices of the Airport Courthouse. We have also worked with Orange County public defenders and know the ins-and-outs of the California criminal justice system. Choosing the right Los Angeles DUI attorneys is important too.

Our Orange County and Los Angeles DUI defender lawyers will represent you in any of the LA or Orange County Criminal Courts; Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Laguna Niguel, Westminster, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach and Fullerton. We will serve your Southern California criminal case with the personal attention it deserves. Our attorneys will meet with you and handle your drug or alcohol related criminal case from start to finish no matter what your DWI symptoms were. You will not be handed off to a clerk or intern. Only our criminal defense attorneys will be with you as you fight these charges, including DMV ("Department of Motor Vehicles") hearings regarding the suspension of your license "CDL").

Our Orange County DUI attorneys are state wide, also located in Los Angeles and Marina del Rey. We know the criminal justice system and know the weaknesses of DUI prosecutions in LA as well as the Orange County cities famous for DUI checkpoints. Our defense lawyers also know the roads and habits of Los Angeles and Orange County law enforcement agencies. Just because you were pulled over, given a breath, blood, or urine test, and arrested does not mean you will automatically serve jail time and have a huge black mark on your record. Contact us today to see how we can help you fight your arrest.

Year this Office was Established: 2009

Languages: English, Spanish

Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Aircraft Accidents, Amusement Park Accident, Cal Trans, Electrocution, Elevator Injuries, Fire & Explosions, Hit & Run, Jackknife 18 Wheeler, Limousine Crash, Swimming Pool / Jacuzzi Hot Tub Accident, Segway Accidents, Tour Bus, Vacation Accidents, Dog Bite Attacks, Amputation, Baby Crib Defect, Broken Pelvis, Deglove, Drowning, Facet Joint Syndrome, Hot Water Heater, Hydroxycut, July 4 Injuries, Laceration, Quadriplegia, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Whiplash, Zicam, Eye Injury, Toyota Recall.

Practice Areas Description

We litigate the following practice area descriptions involving serious personal injuries/accident claims like:

- Motorcycle Accidents

Injuries from Motorcycle accidents are not the same as those in an enclosed passenger car with seat-belts and airbags. In fact, they are not even close. Motorcycles are usually two wheeled vehicles that will usually eject the rider in a high speed crash, or low speed crash. Even pads and helmets do little to protect the motorcycle riders in a crash. This can leave the rider with a ruptured disc, a serious brain injury, or even result in wrongful death. Because we are motorcycle attorneys with vast knowledge of tort laws, we can help guide you through the legal quagmire that other motorcycle accident attorneys either don't have the time, or the desire to take on when valuating your damages claims.

- Trucking Accidents

With trucking accidents on the rise the last several years, the federal, state and local governments as well as truck manufacturers have recognized that big rig trucks result in a large portion of fatal traffic accidents on our freeways, roadways and highways in America and throughout the states. Typical examples of a trucking accident are: Rush delivery deadlines put unreasonable demands on truckers to get goods delivered fast; Exhaustion of truck operators from long drives and lack of sleep; Driver Stress and resulting inattention; Inherent difficulties in noticing small objects when you are operating a big rig truck; Lack of driving lane space cushion inherent in big rig trucks and causes cars to get wiped out; Defective parts on a big rig can cause catastrophic loss; and, Exceeding maximum load for the truck, laws and the particular highway.

- Exploding Airbag / Defective Product

Exploding airbag, exploding bottle and tread separation are examples of a products liability case. Products liability occurs when a defective product - such as a defective tire with tread separation - is negligently designed or manufactured, & released into the stream of commerce. All defendants in the chain of commerce, or stream of commerce of the defective product, are held liable. From manufacturer, shipper and retailer, this legal cause of action helps spread the risk among those liable. This gets the tort victim, Paul Pfau for example, gets compensation for damages and injuries. Other defendants in the chain of commerce can sue each other for contribution and indemnification. But the injury victim gets paid no matter what. Strict products liability makes a tortfeasor liable no matter what, including physical pain and torment.

- Burn Injuries

Need burn injury attorneys in West Los Angeles, or other major California city? If you can't locate an aggressive burn injury lawyer in West Los Angeles, Orange County or the United States, you're not alone. Burn injuries are now at epidemic levels in North America, and are understood by doctors and experienced personal injury attorneys to be a major health care obstacle, more serious than other major epidemics. Burn injury is recognized by medical professionals and most doctors as a major problem because of its lifelong emotional and physical effects. Finding experienced Los Angeles burn injury attorneys is not as easy as it seems. Finding a good burn injury doctor who knows how to treat a burn injury is also no walk in the park.

- Brain Injury

Accidents causing intensive brain injuries usually have a devastating impact on the lives of individuals and their families. Typically, head impact injuries come with permanent, negative health issues such as traumatic or mild traumatic brain injuries. In most cases, brain injury accident could have been mitigated or prevented if someone had not been reckless or negligent. The local Orange County, and Los Angeles Brain injury lawyers at the law firm of Ehline Law are in the business of helping those who suffered injuries involving the head and brain resulting from devastating and preventable events.

- Spinal Cord / Herniated Disc Injuries

Our local law firm of experienced spinal cord and ruptured disc attorneys have found that when the human disc is caused to violently shift out of place, the resulting effect will often create a condition known as a “slipped” disc, or herniation. Medical professionals also call this condition a “ruptured” disc injury. If a disc is forced out of place, it places great pressure on the human the spinal channel. This causes enormous pressure on the nerves in the spinal column. Often, the herniated disc victim will experience severe pain in their extremities. The most common complaints of bulging disc injuries are back pain, leg pain, and neck and shoulder pain.

- Wrongful Death

Wrongful death law in California is a specialized form of recovery that was not allowed under English Common law. California statues are the vehicle for how Los Angeles Wrongful Death Attorneys recover money for California families. Basically, these laws allow financial compensation to the surviving lawful heirs of a decedent who was killed by a negligent tortfeasor, or due to the wrongdoer’s willful neglect, recklessness, misfeasance, malfeasance, or non-feasance. Other state legislatures have their own "wrongful death statutes." However, every jurisdiction has it’s own set of wrongful death law modernly. There are no federal wrongful death statutes.

- Wrongful Death Electrocution

Electrical type injuries, such as a wrongful death electrocution, happen when an electrocution victim’s body becomes integrated into an electrical circuit, or gets trapped in an localized electrical arc, such as a lightning strike, or arc welder which typically occur when an electrical conductor, or and object that conducts electricity touches high-voltage power line as an example, or when a conductive low-voltage electricity source like an electrical cord bitten by a baby. Electrical injuries include: High-Voltage Powerlines, 110 Volt Home and 120 Volt Industrial; Low-Voltage AC Accidents; and, DC Injuries, like from an electrically charged metrolink rail, or trolley car lines.

- Cruise Ship Accidents

As cruise ship accident attorneys, we are vastly experienced in litigating luxury liner accidents claims. Our lawyers understand that cruise ship accidents claims are part of the law of the sea that involves cruise ships. Even though much of the general admiralty maritime law generally applies to cruise ship related matters, there are many special laws that apply only to cruise ships claims. For instance, cruise lines sometimes insert special provisions into their passenger boarding passes that are legally allowed under U.S. laws. Some of the many wrongful injuries that have occurred on California Cruise Ships include: Molestation or rape by a cruise liner employee; Assault and battery attacks; Slip, trip or fall on a stair, or ladder; Accidental pool drowning; Missing at sea incidents; Food poisonings like Norovirus; Shore and Port Excursions; Falling off a ship from negligence or cruise line's strict liability; Tour Injuries from shore excursions arranged by the luxury liner; Jacuzzi burns; Head Injuries; Sexual or Physical Assault By Cruise Guests; and, Wrongful death on a luxury liner.

- Car Accidents

If you or someone you know were seriously injured due to a car accident, there are many things you must know or you could be hurting your chances at recovery. You must prove that the defendant driver of the injury causing vehicle, negligently operated his or her motor vehicle, that caused the accident. Alternatively, you must show that a defect in the vehicle or even the roadway was the actual cause of the injury causing accident. Like in all accidents, determining who is at fault. Our attorneys understand the dynamics of car accidents, and we make sure our clients' claims for injuries result in the highest level of compensation possible. At the Ehline Law, our accident injury attorneys may be able to help you determine who caused the injury or occurrence. [i.e., who is at fault.] Our local firm of attorneys will use our vast pool of investigators, research attorneys, appellate resources, expert witnesses and doctors to help you or your loved ones determine legal liability. Above all, we want you to get justice through the pocket book of the injury causing person or insurance company.

- Slip and Fall / Premises Liability

In a nut shell, premises liability is when a property owner fails to make dangerous conditions on his property safe, and victims get injured. This includes failure to make reasonable safety inspections. It is a type of property owner negligence. You could slip and fall on a wet floor and suffer and neck and back injury. You could trip in a hole and break an ankle. You are entitled to money damages for your slip, trip and fall injuries in certain circumstances. An example would potentially include a playground accident. You don't assume the risk of an injury not inherent in the recreational activity. Many times these types of injuries are preventable injuries. Our Marina del Rey premises liability attorneys are equally Santa Monica premises liability attorneys and service every major California city, including Seal Beach and Huntington Harbor.

- Quadriplegia

Quadriplegia, is also known as tetraplegia. This unfortunate condition occurs when there is an injury to any of the seven (7) cervical vertebra above the first thoracic vertebrae. This injury can result not only in loss of feeling and function of the arms and legs, it can also cause severe pain, loss of bladder control, bowel control, muscle spasm, sexual dysfunction, loss of fertility, as well as shortened lifespan. Quadriplegia is terrible human condition that is often the result of negligence or carelessness. Unlike paraplegia, which is a paralysis from the waist down, quadriplegia occurs when the spinal cord is severed from the shoulder and neck area. The result stops mobility and dulls sensation and motor function of the lower body. An additional consequence often results in involuntary bodily functions like respiratory conditions, digestion problems, and even causes excretion of body waste to become difficult, or even impossible, as discussed above.

- Train Accidents

A California train crash is one of the most devastating things one will ever have the misfortune of being in, or even seeing and hearing. If you have been in a train crash, train accident, or Metrolink wreck mishap, you need the experienced train attorneys at the Law Offices of Michael P. Ehline. We will assist you to recover money damages, in the form of lost wages, past medical bills, future medical bills, pain and suffering and yes, sometimes even punitive damages. We want to help you get the highest monetary compensation for your train crash injury in California and Los Angeles.

- Airplane / Helicopter Accidents

Have you or someone you know recently been in an airplane crash and need experienced Los Angeles airplane crash attorneys? Perhaps you were in an aviation accident and need airplane accident attorneys, or airplane crash attorneys and lawyers in California? California aircraft law can be tricky, with many obstacles potentially preventing recovery for an injured California consumer. If you have suffered injuries or lost a loved one in an airplane accident, or airplane crash, you already know the pain, grief and tragedy associated with these serious personal injury accidents. Your experts at the Ehline law firm are recognized as the best Los Angeles personal injury attorneys. When you retain our California airplane crash lawyers, you know you are retaining experienced legal counsel who really understand California aircraft law and related federal law(s). What you may not realize is the complex nature of bringing a suit to recover damages for those injuries or deaths.

- Animal Attacks / Dog Bites

The vast majority animal attacks victims are little kids. In fact, dog bites are the cause of more emergency room visits than any other children's activity, even burn injuries. Serious laceration injuries make victims of the youngest of children, ages ten (10) and under; over seventy-seven percent (77%) of injuries to small kids are those involving their heads and faces. Amazingly, at least sixty-one percent (61%) of dog bite attacks happen in their own houses, or in their very neighborhoods. A small child who was bit by a dog owned by a friend or neighbor can cause a lot of problems emotionally speaking. You usually don't want to sue friends, neighbors and family members. But you need to understand that many of these injuries are covered by the dog owners and homeowners insurance policy, and may even include insurance claims under an excess or umbrella policy to boot. But you need to know California dog bite laws to get the most recovery. At Ehline Law, we will assist you in finding a doctor, and help you get a doctor to work on a lien if you cannot afford the best medical care for your small child injured by a dog bite wound. We can also help locate a psychiatrist to help with the emotional difficulties of the attack by a dangerous animal.

- Boating Accident

Because we are boating accident attorneys, we understand the special needs of a waterway accident victim. We are the best personal injury attorneys in Los Angeles, California. Our local Los Angeles personal injury attorneys are highly experienced in local waterway laws, as well as admiralty and maritime law, which underscores many recreational boating accident cases. Were you or a loved one a passenger who was injured on a recreational tour boat, like the Catalina Flyer, or simply an expensive, private yacht? Many serious injuries happen on small and large boats and even jet skis, like orthopaedic injury, broken bones, wrongful death and drowning, or even coma. Sometime drugs and alcohol lead to horrible things like ship rape, requiring retention of rape attorneys.

- Amusement Park Accident

Have you been injured while in a vacation accident while you were playing at a California amusement park? If you were injured at a major amusement park such as Magic Mountain, retaining Los Angeles amusement park accident attorneys is more difficult than it seems. California has a plethora of amazing amusement parks attracting visitors from all over the world. Some of the most popular tourist magnets are amusement parks in California. This results in consumer injuries and the need for Magic Mountain injury lawyers in California, and Los Angeles amusement park accident attorneys. When consumers are sometimes injured, you need to retain California theme park accident lawyers who understand the dynamics of a theme park case. In the news we often see and hear about dozens of roller coaster victims being injured due to rides stopping too fast, of from seat restraint failures during the exciting thrill rides. These rides are particularly known for causing injury to children.

- Swimming Pool / Jacuzzi Hot Tub Accident

Swimming pool and Jacuzzi hot tub accidents also include slip and fall on a slippery and slimy pool decking surface, that was not properly cleaned and/or scrubbed which can easily cause a broken bone orthopedic injury. All of these premises liability injuries are complex and difficult to litigate. They are also very emotional, requiring a level headed swimming pool injury attorney to give a degree of separation between emotional parents and loved ones, and the tort wrongdoer, property owner. Issues like negligence per se, for violation building and safety code sections, must be expertly explored as well. Getting a judgment for negligence in California courts often requires safety experts, accident re-constructionists, forensic experts and excellent swimming pool injury lawyers. This can be expensive and that is why the Law Offices of Michael P. Ehline, P.C., works on a contingency fee and advances all costs.

- Bicycle Accidents

Experienced bicycle accident attorneys help find coverage from all sources of compensation, including insurance coverage. If you have a college student attending Santa Monica College, Loyola, or UCLA, for example, you will have noticed they often ride bikes to get around town. Doubtless you will have seen and bike messengers delivering packages, or cyclists in Venice Beach or Santa Monica get run over by out of control cars in Los Angeles. Parents often carry a child on a bicycle, which can cause bike injuries to children. Here at the California personal injury law firm of Ehline Law, our injury lawyers work hard protecting legal rights of bicycle accidents victims. You can call us anytime for a free initial consultation, contact local injury attorneys now. Our vast legal knowledge and experience in the many facets and intricacies of bicycle accidents give us expert knowledge about issues.

- Pedestrian Accidents

California pedestrians injured in a car accident or truck crash, must seek and retain experienced Los Angeles and Orange County pedestrian attorneys. Southern California, with crowded cities like Laguna Beach, Venice Beach, Huntington Beach and Hermosa Beach, can be dangerous for pedestrians and elderly people crossing the street. Pedestrians don't have airbags, seat belts, or a safety cage to protect them in an auto v. pedestrian accident. Our Los Angeles personal injury attorneys and lawyers have the experience with pedestrian accident law to help you win your Los Angeles or Orange County Cross-walk accident case.

- Bus Accidents

Our firm specializes in getting the recovery that plaintiffs deserve in serious bus accident personal injury cases such as an Orion tour bus collision in Soledad. The Law Offices of Michael P. Ehline has litigated several bus accident and bus injury cases resulting in large settlements. The problematic nature of bus accidents is that the sheer size and speed of the vehicle, coupled with the amount of occupants means that serious injuries, spinal cord damage, or whiplash can result. Should you or a love one have been unfortunate enough to have suffered painful injuries or the death of a loved one, please contact our offices immediately. Bus accidents are complicated and required the specialized work of bus accident attorneys to attain maximum recovery for you and your loved ones.

- Cal Trans

Cal Trans negligence lawyers in California assist victims wounded in catastrophic government claims accidents, in cities such as Los Angeles, and counties like San Bernardino and Riverside. When there is a vehicle accident in which you or a loved one is injured in the state of California, it is possible the California Department of Transportation is at fault. This department is known as Cal Trans and they are responsible for repairs on the roadways, including guardrails and medians that are not installed correctly or missing. This can result in serious injuries during a vehicle accident or cause the accident.

- Construction Accidents

Injuries can happen in accidents involving scaffolding, electrocution, falls from heights, operating heavy equipment, forklift accidents, crane accidents, poisoning, nail guns, hazardous waste, acetylene torches, welding, severe burns, falling objects, failure of safety equipment, failure to follow OSHA guidelines. Injuries like skull fractures, concussions, amputation of limbs and fingers, blindness, burns, chemical burns, scalding, contusions, severe gashes, and broken bones are common in on-site construction accidents. If you, a co-worker, or a loved one has suffered an injury like these, you owe it to yourself to get the best representation possible.

- Elevator Accidents

Any personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles, State of California, will acknowledge that there are many buildings including high-rise buildings that have elevators and while they are safer than ever before, because of technology injuries can still occur. There are many people that are injured yearly that work on or near elevators; these injuries are often severe injuries. Passengers on elevators also are injured and these injuries can be severe. When you are injured in an elevator accident and need the experienced Los Angeles personal injury attorney, our personal injury attorneys have the experience and can help the elevator injury victim.

- Hit and Run Accidents

Our Marina del Rey Attorneys are recognized as the best personal injury attorneys in Los Angeles, California. We bring the Marina del Rey consumer yet another educational web-page with free information. Have you been hit by a car on Admiralty Way in Marina del Rey, Palawan Way, or Mindanao? Attorney Michael Ehline is a local Marina del Rey pedestrian accident lawyer and bicycle accident attorney. Attorney Ehline is leading the internet fight against the SR 90 expansion that will dump the 90 freeway right onto Admiralty Way. We are excellent Marina del Rey attorneys and we want to help you recover damages for your serious hit and run injury and death on Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, California.

- School Bus Accidents

If you or someone you know has been injured in a school bus accident, you must retain experienced school bus accident attorneys. The most common causes for fatal traffic accidents in general, are: Lack of training on the part of the driver; Overloaded buses; Poorly maintained brakes; Driving a school bus in conditions of poor visibility due to fog, snow, rain, or smoke (e.g. school bus accident); School Bus driver inexperience; Fatigued, sleepy or tired big school bus operator; driving a school bus too long and too many hours without rest; Speeding in a school bus over the limit or driving a large vehicle at high speeds beyond the road and weather conditions; Running off the road; Failure to yield the right of way; Aggressive school bus driving behavior; School bus operator driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol; Unsafe safety systems, reflectors, lights, and other warning devices.

- Tour Bus Accident / Sightseeing Injury

The injuries suffered from a Las Vegas casino tour bus accident range from death, serious friction burns, broken ankle, broken bones and even coma to name a few. Recovering for physical pain and suffering and economic loss, past and present, is almost impossible without experienced and local California tour bus accident attorneys. Someday you may need to retain experienced, California, tour bus accident lawyers. Perhaps you paid for cheap casino tour tickets and were injured in a tour bus on a casino tour, such as the recent Soledad tour bus accident? Our Casino tour bus accident attorneys have vast experience in these cases. For example, perhaps the gambling casino subsidized the casino tour bus company and/or paid the negligent tour bus operator a commission per passenger, or based upon a percentage of what the tour bus passengers and you gambled. Did you know that the casino could be liable as a joint venturer, partner or co venturer of the casino? This means the casino has some liability for your personal injuries, not just the tour bus operator and driver.

- Vacation Disasters

We are famous vacation accident attorneys. Assisting injured individuals who suffered vacation disasters and get away mishaps. There are many ways you could be injured on vacation. Cruise ship injuries and death are examples. Sometimes a boat operator may have one too many drinks and cause you or a loved one to drown in the ocean by a boat crash, which could capsize the boat. Recreational boating accidents often happen to weary travelers on vacation. A trip to Catalina Island could change your life forever, if someone is negligent towards you. If you left port from San Pedro or any other California city, were injured or raped on a recreational boat, or cruise line, you are probably entitled to money for you injuries. If you were on vacation in California, or travel to California, you understand why you need a California vacation accident attorney. Even a simple thing like a personal injury insurance claim can get complicated if you are located in Canada, or Europe for example. Retain vacation lawyers, or vacation attorneys at the Law Offices of Michael P. Ehline, P.C. We'll litigate the traffic accident or DUI case you got stuck with while on vacation in California, or while you travel in California. If your kid was hurt during prom, or on vacation, our vacation attorneys will get the insurance claim going right away.

- Vehicle Roll Over Accidents

At law firm of Ehline Law, we litigate Los Angeles County automobile vehicle rollover cases, including SUVs. We have a strong reputation for representing victims injured from a rollover accident. Automobiles and all other types of vehicles are not supposed to roll over under normal expected driving conditions for the type and model. But often, auto manufacturers have put profits over people and refuse to design safe automobiles, which can actually make them rollover and cause death or serious damages to individuals. Unfortunately, not all vehicles are designed by their manufacturer with safety in mind. Roll overs can happen from a defective product, failure to adequately warn, or other manufacturing and design defects.

- Broken Ankle / Foot Injury

The experienced broken foot injury Lawyers at Ehline Law provide effective, efficient, persevering legal representation to every ankle and foot injury victim whom they represent. If, as a result of someone else’s actions or negligence you have suffered a broken foot, rolled ankle, sprained ankle, or fracture, we can assist you in getting the recovery that you deserve. Our offices have provided aggressive effective representation to many other clients in your situation and prevailed with large awards. It is often the case that ankle fractures and foot injuries are the result of someone else’s conduct or malice.

- Catastrophic Accident Claims

There are many types of catastrophic injuries. They can occur without any warnings. They usually cause devastation to the point that the victim will never be the same. If you were into sports, like soccer, basketball, or martial arts, you may never be able to do it again. You could have suffered an amputation injury, brain injury, or spinal cord trauma leaving you or your wife or husband permanently disabled and incapacitated. You will more than likely need medical and nursing care of for the rest of your life. Los Angeles personal injury attorneys deal with catastrophic injuries and illnesses such as traumatic brain injuries (TBI), dog bite accident, broken bones, severe burns, disc burst fractures, deglove injuries and sever neurological disorders. Sometimes these injuries can lead to incontinence, loss of feelings in your extremities, loss of bladder control, inability to breathe independently, loss of memory, inability to speak, blindness; temporary or permanent, paralysis, and loss of communicative and cognitive abilities.

- Child Abuse

Child abuse attorneys in Los Angles and abused children lawyers attorneys in Orange County cities like Santa Ana, Anaheim Hills and Huntington Beach are the first ones to tell you that the abuse of a child is not always obvious. The abuse can take many forms such as chronic neglect or starvation by a caregiver, abuse of children in foster care, or it could be seen when a child comes into an emergency room with a spiral fracture or showing signs of “shaken baby” syndrome. Abuse can also be as heinous as sexual abuse by a parent, step-parent, or foster parent; witnessing domestic violence of one parent against the other, or; as benign as failing to meet the special needs of a child’s education. It can even result in wrongful death of a child.

- Amputation Claims

Amputation and dismemberment involves the removal of your body parts, typically as a result to severe trauma to a limb, such as an arm or leg. Amputation injury attorneys in Los Angeles see a lot of amputation cases and childhood injuries due to motorcycle and cross walk injuries. The hospital will sometimes be forced to remove a limb to stop the spread of infections, diseases, or to thwart a person from bleeding to death. As an amputee you could have other problems during the adjustment period of your initial disfigurement that mandate retention of an amputation lawsuits law firm. The emotional trauma of losing a body part could take many years. Normally an amputee or disfigurement victim will need special pain medication, psychotherapy and hospitalization to deal with the serious after effects of loss of a limb, or destruction thereof.

- Facet Joint Syndrome / Chronic Pain

Is a condition that involves the facet joints of your spine. Our Facet Joint Syndrome injury lawyers are specially suited to handle chronic pain - post - trauma cases. Your facet joints are the areas that connect the vertebraes in your spine. These joints are similar to the other joints in your body, such as a finger joints, ankle joint, or elbow joint. These are the joints that allow twisting, bending and other movements that would cause you to break in half if not but for these facet joints in your body involving your spine. Your facet joints effect your range of movement as well as strength, flexibility and integrity. If the facet joints get inflamed due to a long term injury, or old spinal cord injury that acts up such as from a vehicular accident, arthritis can develop into chronic pain syndrome and cause lifetime pain and stiffness. This happens because an injury to the facet joints such as from an impact or collision directly interlinks with your neck and/or cervical spinal cord area. Thus, you will notice problems rotating your head and headaches such as migraines and even sleep apnea.

- Child Injury

As child injury attorneys, we are perfectly placed to educate and assist guardians and conservators in dealing with injuries to children entrusted to their care. As parents, child lawyers, doctors and day care centers, or others entrusted to care for children, it is our responsibility to keep them safe and provide an environment that is secure. This will allow them to grow, learn, and discover the world around them. Because we can’t be everywhere at once, we delegate our duties to adults and institutions outside the home and trust they will take the responsibility of care as seriously as we do as parents. As child abuse lawyers and parents all know, nothing is perfect. Those we entrust our children to, such as foster parents, can disappoint us. Some of the unfortunate maladies that can result from this negligent care are loss of limbs or the use of a limb, like an amputation injury, concussions; skull fractures, broken bones, neck or spinal trauma resulting in partial or full paralysis, loss of vision, or horrible scars and disfigurement. You may even find yourself in need of shaken baby syndrome attorneys.

- Elder Abuse / Nursing Home Neglect

At Ehline Law, we are Los Angeles Elder Abuse Attorneys in California, committed to helping the elderly and their families through these difficult situations. If your loved one has suffered abuse in a nursing home or in another care arrangement, our experienced litigators can help you pursue the matter and obtain justice for your loved one. Our elder Abuse lawyers in California have successfully pursued several nursing home abuse claims such as elder care malnutrition, for clients throughout Southern California.

- Cuts, Wounds and Lacerations

There are many types of accidents that occur where a common injury can be cuts, wounds and lacerations, such as an auto accident, slip and fall and a dog bite attack. The definition of a laceration is cuts or tears in the skin that is caused by broken glass in a car accident, debris during a slip and fall or from a canines nails or teeth. A laceration can also be caused by blunt force trauma such as can occur during a auto accident and can range in severity from minor to critical or even fatal.

- Shaken Baby Syndrome

When someone is accused of shaking a baby, the only lawyer you think about is the attorney hired to represent the accused. But who represents the baby and the family affected by the incident? The Orange County family injury attorneys at Ehline Law are also Los Angeles injury lawyers who can and will represent you and your baby in cases like these. We fight for you through the civil law process, and the criminal courts. Babies who have suffered in a shaking incident, from a nanny, babysitter, or day care worker, will have future expenses for medical costs, rehabilitation, and in some cases, full-time care. Seeing the accused brought to justice in criminal court is not enough. That person, and whoever could have stopped them, is financially responsible for what they’ve done. Our job is to see they pay.

- Whiplash

In a vehicle collision, a common personal injury that will occur is whiplash. Our experienced whiplash attorneys have seen that whiplash will make a head hurl backwards, and then forward. Medical doctors call this a “hyperextension” from being jerked forward, and a “hyperflexion”, for being jerked backwards. Getting jerked like this, will cause serious injuries to a neck and upper torso, like the upper rhomboids, and trapezium. Injuring a neck in such a way is commonly known as whiplash. Our whiplash attorneys have seen serious car accidents that will cause this severe neck injury. The damage caused by whiplash can include intervertebral joint damage, disc damage, damages to the ligaments, and cervical spine injury and other orthopaedic injury. This can also cause traumatic and mild traumatic brain injury.

- DUI Defense (Driving Under Influence)

We will challenge the evidence against you and do all we can to get your matter dismissed at the DMV administrative hearing or court; Your DUI case in Los Angeles or Orange County will be taken care of in line with our philosophical approach; Aggressively defending you with our experienced criminal defense attorneys and uniquely qualified experts; Personal attention to your DUI case; you won't be handed off to another attorney or clerk; Working through the DMV Driver Safety Offices in Irvine, or other California city, we will take the necessary steps to get your CDL reinstated; Investigate your breath test, field sobriety test, including the breathalyzer and the procedure used when necessary; Independently double check any blood sample taken for alcohol and preservation; Appearing for you in court; you only appear when it is absolutely necessary; Give you the ability to talk to the attorney handling your case when you need to; no dealing with a secretary or clerk.