San Diego Attorneys for
Uninsured Motorist Accidents, Underinsured Motorist Claims,
Car Accident Deaths & Injury

If you've been injured through another's neglience, the San Diego law office of Stennett Casino can help you. We handle only claims by injury victims and by insurance policyholders, and we have years of success in obtaining settlements and court judgments for injury victims.

We have also successfully obtained compensation many times for injured clients in uninsured motorist accidents. We have also been successful in cases involving an underinsured motorist claim. We always seek the maximum compensation available under the particular facts and law of that case and the client's own uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage.

A person, company, or other legal entity who negligently causes you injury can be legally required to pay for your resulting financial losses and your pain and suffering. Injuries often result when negligence leads to an auto, motorcycle, or bicycle accident, a dog bite, a defect in a product, dental or medical malpractice, a dangerous condition on public or private property, or other potentially harmful circumstances.

You or your attorney will need to make a timely claim against the responsible party, whose insurance company will generally defend against your claim. If the company does not compensate you promptly or adequately, you or your attorney must file and prosecute a court case within strict legal time limits, or you'll lose your rights to payment.

Insurance companies have professional claims adjusters who aggressively defend their insureds even when their insureds are at fault. The adjusters will want to take recorded statements from you -- not to help them fairly evaluate your case but to use what you say to diminish their responsibility. They will photograph your car, photograph your person, contact your employer, and get you to sign medical authorizations all in an attempt to minimize the value of your case. Their entire motivation is self -serving: to pay the least amount possible for your claim. If you are representing yourself, or you have an unskilled or inexperienced attorney, insurance companies will also minimize or refuse payment accordingly.

For these reasons, it is very important that you be represented by a skilled injury attorney as soon as possible after you are injured. The law office of Stennett Casino has knowledge of the inside operations of most of the larger insurance companies, including Allstate, USAA, Farmers, State Farm, and AAA. We can anticipate the various arguments they and other insurance companies will make to avoid paying you the fair value of your claim.

We will energetically pursue your claim and fight for a claims settlement that will adequately compensate you for all of your losses. These may include past and future medical bills, prescription and over-the-counter medication costs, physical therapy, loss of income calculated on a gross (pre-tax, pre-deduction) basis, expenses incurred for household help or transportation needed because of your injury, all other expenses, and pain and suffering. If necessary, our outstanding courtroom skills enable us to confidently pursue any injury case through trial by jury.

California Insurance Code sec. 11580.2 requires all insurance companies to offer uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage. UM coverage applies if you are injured by a negligent driver who has no insurance or whose liability insurance limits are too low to fully compensate you for your injuries. This coverage applies even if you are a pedestrian or a passenger in someone else's automobile.

In these cases, you are making a claim against your own insurance company for personal injury damages caused by another. Your own insurance company will defend against your claim in the same way they would if they were the insurer for the person who injured you. They will use every tactic and do whatever they can to defeat your claim and minimize your damages.

Legal representation in these cases is just as important as in claims being pursued against the responsible person's insurer. This is because your own insurance company will not give you any special consideration but will defend against your claim as aggressively as it would against an outsider's claim.

If you are injured in an accident, we can help you obtain injury compensation from the responsible person or company, or, where they lack adequate insurance, under your own uninsured / underinsured motorist coverage.

We are experienced injury attorneys. Here is how we can help you:

Each case is different, and the result depends on the facts and law that apply to that case. California Rule of Professional Conduct 1-400 requires us to tell you that the results we have obtained in other cases are not a guarantee, warranty, or prediction regarding the outcome of your legal matter.