A Los Angeles personal injury law firm that answers the phone.

By Woodbury Law Group Last reviewed August 1, 2026

Every injury case in this office starts the same way. Someone was going about an ordinary day in Los Angeles, and someone else was careless. A driver ran the light at Brand and Colorado. A store manager ignored the spill in aisle four. A landlord skipped the stair repair for the third year running. Now there are emergency room bills, missed paychecks, and a claims adjuster whose job performance is measured by how little the insurance company pays you.

That last part is worth sitting with. The adjuster is polite. The adjuster is trained to be. But the recorded statement they want, the quick settlement they float, the medical authorization they ask you to sign, each one is designed to shrink your claim before you learn what it is worth. Injured people who hire a lawyer do not do it because they love lawyers. They do it because the system is built by insurers, for insurers, and walking in alone is expensive.

What we take off your plate.

From the day you retain Woodbury Law Group, the insurance company talks to us, not to you. We collect the traffic collision report from LAPD, CHP, or Glendale PD. We preserve evidence before it disappears: intersection camera footage gets overwritten, vehicles get scrapped, skid marks fade. We line up your medical care, including physicians who treat on a lien when you have no health insurance, so treatment never waits on a settlement. Then we document everything, because in an injury claim the difference between a fair number and a lowball number is almost always documentation.

When your treatment stabilizes, we send the insurer a demand supported by records, bills, wage documentation, and, where the injuries call for it, opinions from retained medical and accident reconstruction professionals. Most claims settle at this stage. When an insurer will not be reasonable, we file suit. Los Angeles County routes most injury cases through its dedicated personal injury courts at the Spring Street Courthouse downtown, and we prepare every case on the assumption it will end up there.

What your claim may cover.

California law allows an injured person to recover economic damages and non-economic damages. Economic damages are the countable losses: emergency care, surgery, physical therapy, future treatment, lost wages, reduced earning capacity, and the cost of replacing what was destroyed. Non-economic damages compensate for what the injury did to your life: pain, anxiety behind the wheel, a shoulder that no longer lets you lift your kid. Insurers discount these losses aggressively when no lawyer is involved. We do not let them.

Two California rules surprise people. First, comparative negligence: being partly at fault does not bar your claim, it only reduces it in proportion to your share. Second, Proposition 213: if you owned the car and were driving without insurance, you generally cannot recover non-economic damages, even when the crash was entirely the other driver's fault. Rules like these are exactly why a free consultation before you talk to any insurer is worth thirty minutes of your time.