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  • Understanding The Tragic Dive Boat Accident

    Conception, a 75-foot dive boat, left for a recreational scuba diving trip on Saturday, August 31 left from Santa Barbara. The boat traveled to the south side of Santa Cruz Island, up to Cavern Point, and over to the north side of the island. The trip ended abruptly in disaster when the vessel caught fire, fatally trapping 34 passengers onboard. Only crew members, who were sleeping on the top ...
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  • McGuinn Co-Authors Article on E-Scooter “Click-to-Agree” Clauses

    E-scooters like Bird and Lime have become increasingly popular since they rolled out to most U.S. cities in 2018, but these e-scooters have also caused accident and injury rates to spike. Because e-scooters are so small compared to the average car and offer few protections for riders, riders are far more likely to face serious injury or death when hit by an oncoming vehicle. In spite of these ...
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  • Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn Wins $58 Million Judgement on Behalf of Injured Worker

    Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn is pleased to announce the outstanding judgement we obtained on behalf of our client, 28-year-old Harley Squires, after he sustained a permanent, debilitating brain injury when a contractor dropped a 20-30 lb. tree limb on our client’s head from nearly 20-feet high. After a two-day bench trial, RFTM won over $58 million in damages for Harley’s injuries and the ...
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  • Rouda, Feder, Tietjen, and McGuinn Makes History with $47.5 Million Settlement for Injured Child

    Rouda, Feder, Tietjen, and McGuinn is pleased to announce that Partner Tim Tietjen and our legal team have secured a $47.5 million settlement for a child who was catastrophically injured when a rotten tree fell on his tent. The settlement reached with the County of San Mateo and utility giant PG&E is the largest pretrial personal injury settlement for a single plaintiff in California history ! The ...
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  • Runaway Truck Causes Second Tragedy for Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn Clients

    Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn Partner Cynthia McGuinn was recently quoted in the news in connection to an update on a tragic auto accident case that occurred in Santa Rosa in early February. Partner McGuinn and our personal injury legal team are representing 76-year-old Barbara Schmidt, who was catastrophically injured in the crash, and her wife. Just four months prior to the crash the couple had ...
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  • San Francisco Trial Attorney and Partner becomes National President of the American Board of Trial Advocates

    San Francisco Trial Attorney and nationally recognized Personal Injury Lawyer Cynthia McGuinn has been inducted as the National President of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). During an induction ceremony held at ABOTA’s National Board Meeting in San Francisco, McGuinn took the oath of office from the Honorable Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, the Chief Justice of the State of California. ...
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  • Attorney Timothy Tietjen Sets Precedent in Securing California Supreme Court Ruling

    On October 11, the California Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal filed by San Mateo County that sought reversal of the trial court’s denial of a motion for summary judgment based on the County’s asserted claim of natural-conditions immunity. Thus, the road is clear for our teenaged client to finally get his day in court. In the summer of 2012, 12-year-old Zachary Rowe went camping with his ...
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  • Top Settlement in Northern California 2016 Secured by Rouda, Feder, Tietjen & McGuinn

    Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn has been recognized by Leaders in the Law for achieving the highest settlement of the year (2016) in Northern California. In a complicated car accident case , law firm partner Timothy Tietjen was able to secure a $24 million recovery for their client. Ms. Forkey was driving along the I-680 when an Acura swerved towards her, forcing her vehicle off the road. She ...
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  • Trial Attorney Tim Tietjen Discusses the Skill of Active Listening and Preparation in a Plaintiff's Magazine Article Written by Daniel Pleasant

    Tim Tietjen, a partner at San Francisco’s Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn, believes that keeping an open mind while trying cases and during discovery is crucial, always reminding himself that, “Everything you know is wrong.” To be an effective cross-examiner, Tietjen says that one should not be chained to their outlines, but rather pay attention to what the witness says and to let that guide your ...
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  • Traffic Injuries Cost Patients $35M Annually at San Francisco General

    An article published in the Examiner stated a report released by the Department of Public Health shows victims of traffic accidents are responsible for an annual average of $35 million in medical bills at San Francisco General Hospital. The article states medical data was collected between 2012 and 2014 showing that $105.5 million in medical bills were charged to individuals injured in traffic ...
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  • Five distinguished attorneys of RFTM Recognized by Super Lawyers®

    At Rouda Feder Tietjen & McGuinn, our team of San Francisco personal injury lawyers has fought to protect the rights of our clients since 1980 and have garnered a national reputation as strong advocates for those wrongly injured. Our team of driven legal professionals has been honored by Super Lawyers®, a prestigious and well-known rating organization in the legal field which is awarded to the top ...
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  • RFTM secures $24 million settlement for Bay Area woman paralyzed in automobile crash.

    A woman who was left paralyzed by a crash caused by a drunk driver spoke out about her experience. Attorney Timothy G. Tietjen is featured in this CBS San Francisco coverage: A Walnut Creek woman has settled a personal injury lawsuit for $24 million for injuries she suffered in a highway collision on Cinco De Mayo that involved an impaired driver and a Good Samaritan-turned- vigilante. The ...
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  • Five Dead in Central Valley Bus Crash

    California Highway Patrol (CHP) and other emergency responders were alerted of a high-speed bus crash along Highway 99 near Livingston, California during the early morning hours of Tuesday, August 2 nd , 2016. Upon arriving at the scene of the collision, which was on the northbound lane near Hunter Road, responders saw a passenger bus that was nearly sheared in half by the sign pole it struck. At ...
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  • Commuter Train Derailment Near San Francisco, Nine Injured

    Nine rail passengers were hospitalized, four with serious injuries, after a commuter train car derailed in the evening of March 7 th , 2016 near San Francisco. Authorities from the Federal Railroad Administration and the Public Utilities Commission have cited a mudslide as the cause of the derailment, after slides swept a large tree onto the tracks sometime earlier in the day. After colliding with ...
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  • Are Automobile Heads-Up Displays Safe?

    Automobile heads-up displays – translucent projections of information which appear directly on the windshield – are growing in popularity. At the same time, safety organizations are raising concerns over possible risks associated with use of these devices. Luxury automakers in particular, such as Audi, Lexus, and Cadillac, argue that the cutting-edge technology is safe and convenient, while groups ...
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  • Do Uber Drivers Make the Roads Less Safe?

    On July 14, 2015, NBC News reported that Uber reached a tentative settlement in a wrongful death suit that was brought by the family of a 6-year-old girl who died in San Francisco. The girl was walking in a crosswalk with her younger brother and mother when they were struck by a vehicle on New Year’s Eve in 2013. The driver who hit the mother and her small children was logged on to the Uber X ...
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  • 8 Children Injured When 75-Year-Old Tree Crashes on Day Campers Outside Kidspace Museum

    On July 28 th , a 70-foot tree came crashing down suddenly outside of Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena, California. Eight children between the ages of 6 and 8 were injured, and at least two were in critical condition and transported to Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. The 75-year old pine tree suddenly came down out of nowhere around 4:50 p.m. near the entrance of the museum, just as ...
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  • Six Killed, Seven Injured in Berkeley Balcony Collapse

    A fourth floor balcony of a luxury apartment building collapsed just before 12:40 a.m. on Tuesday in downtown Berkeley, sending 13 people falling 40 feet to the sidewalk below. The balcony collapse killed six people, and critically injured seven others. Some of the victims, all believed to be in their 20s, were Irish students visiting the United States on temporary work visas. The young people ...
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  • Train/Rail Accidents a Result of Aging Tracks and Failure to Make Safety Upgrades

    BART Safety Issues While public transportation is certainly good for the environment and a solution for San Francisco residents given the Bay Area traffic, it does carry its own set of risks. Deteriorating tracks present a hazard, putting many passengers at risk. According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle , only about 20% of BART’s tracks have been replaced since it opened in 1972. One ...
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  • CHP Produces Stack of Violations after Deadly Pittsburg Big-Rig Accident

    An out-of-control big rig crashed into a Pittsburg restaurant on March 16th, killing the driver and causing extensive property damage. One witness said that he could tell something was wrong with the vehicle after smelling brakes. The truck crashed into two cars at an intersection before veering off the road into the restaurant, causing an explosion on impact. The witness believes that the truck ...
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  • Gravel Truck Tips on Car, Crushing Young Mother

    On March 23 rd around 1pm, a gravel truck crushed a 32 year-old woman to death when its load tipped over onto her car. The truck was making a delivery for a sidewalk construction project outside of the woman’s home in the East Bay. The gravel truck driver claimed that he checked to make sure the car was a safe distance away from the delivery area, but the construction company reports one of their ...
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  • Tiffany Burnoski, 20, Dies in I-5 Crash

    Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of a young woman killed in a car accident on I-5. A 20-year-old San Francisco resident, Tiffany Burnoski, died in a car crash along Interstate 5 in Fresno County. At the time of the crash, Burnoski was a passenger in a 1998 Toyota. According to the CHP, the driver of the Toyota, Casey Chow, 20, lost control of the car along the northbound I-5 near ...
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