Following a successful year as Barristers President, Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorney Robert Glassman will give his farewell address and welcome his successor during the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) 2016 Installation & Awards Dinner on Thursday, June 23, 2016. Glassman was installed as Barristers President in June 2015 and invited LACBA… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorneys Rahul Ravipudi and Robert Glassman obtained a $6,000,000 settlement for a woman who suffered severe burns and other injuries when a negligently maintained faucet in the bathtub of her apartment detached and sprayed scalding hot water onto her body.  On March 30, 2015, plaintiffs Li Juan Huang and… read more

  Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP founding partner Brian Panish has been named by the Daily Journal as one of the Top Plaintiff Lawyers in California for the second year running. The publication’s editor notes that the 2016 recognition sought to not only highlight attorneys making a difference “far beyond the lives of the… read more

The “Paul Lee School Bus Safety Law” that would require all school buses in California to be equipped with a child-safety alarm system was approved by bipartisan vote on Monday, following a State Assembly Transportation Committee hearing in Sacramento. The bill, which would also require bus drivers, upon a renewal of their annual school bus… read more

Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorneys Ryan Casey, Erika Contreras, Robert Glassman, Patrick Gunning and David Rudorfer have all been recognized by the Super Lawyers publication as 2016 “Rising Stars” in the areas of Personal Injury – General and/or Personal Injury – Products. To be eligible for the Rising Stars list, a candidate must… read more

PSBR donated funds to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Community Safety Program (CSP) which were used to purchase uniforms and gear for a little league team in Ramona Gardens. The Housing Authority’s Community Safety Partnership program with the LAPD is an unprecedented program aimed at improving the relationship between the residents of Los Angeles public… read more

A Pasadena Public Health Department investigation report released this week reveals 16 patients at Huntington Hospital were infected with the “superbug” following procedures with tainted Olympus duodenoscope between January 2013 and August 2015. Of those 16 patients, 11 have died, with only one death certificate listing the scope-related bacteria as the cause of death. Huntington Hospital had previously said only… read more

The Workers’Compensation third-party case is a potential type of case that often gets overlooked by attorneys who assume that when workers are injured on the job, their only course of remedy for their client is to go through the Worker’s Compensation system. In the May issue of Advocate, Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP attorneys Ryan… read more

At the start of trial in the Jerich v. City of Glendale matter on Wednesday, the case resolved for a settlement of $6.5 million.  This is believed to be one of the highest personal injury settlements in Los Angeles County for someone 90 years of age. Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP trial lawyers Brian… read more

Attorneys Brian Panish and Spencer Lucas of Panish | Shea | Ravipudi LLP will begin trial today in the matter of Margaret Jerich v. City of Glendale. The 90-year-old Plaintiff was struck and nearly killed by a City of Glendale garbage truck while she was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk with the aid of her walker on… read more

  The daily reimbursement amount for meal allowance has changed for eligible residents relocated as a result of the Aliso Canyon Storage facility gas well blowout last October. On Sunday, May 1, 2016, Southern California Gas Company began implementing a new, three-tiered meal reimbursement plan based on the age of the relocated residents. Eligible residents… read more

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge will hear arguments this afternoon regarding whether SoCalGas should be required to continue paying for the relocation of residents displaced as a result of the October 2015 Aliso Canyon gas well blowout. The hearing follows the reversal by the California Court of Appeal of another superior court judge who rejected… read more