About Padilla & Rodriguez
Over the years, clients or their referring attorneys have entrusted our attorneys with very significant cases. Our success as attorneys has always been tied to that of our clients. Listed below are just a few of the types of cases that our attorneys have successfully litigated to judgment following a jury trial or settlement without a jury trial:
Automobile and 18-Wheeler Injuries
- 18-wheeler made wide right turn cutting off a motorist in a “squeeze” play
- 18-wheeler backed into oncoming vehicle and resulted in a traumatic brain injury to its driver
- Flatbed truck with no side lights backed across a dark highway causing a pickup truck to slam into the flatbed 18-wheeler collision resulting in major orthopedic injuries and closed head injury
- An intoxicated company driver killed four family members in an auto collision
- Orthopedic injury suffered in bicycle and SUV collision
Property Liability
- Burns over 70 to 80% of the body, caused by improperly installed light fixture and building code violations
- Child killed in stairwell collapse at an apartment complex
- Failure to maintain perimeter security and properly install statutorily required door locks at an apartment complex, which resulted in rape
- Inadequate security measures at an apartment complex, which resulted in a rape
- A failure to maintain perimeter security at an apartment resulted in a shooting in the parking lot
- Inadequate security measures at an apartment complex resulted in a shooting
- Inadequate security measures at an apartment complex resulted in a stabbing death
Workplace Injuries
- Workplace death inside of a trench excavation
- Inadequate safety measures intended to protect highway workers and the negligence of a truck driver
- Workplace death caused by negligent exposure to a substance infested with a deadly bacteria
- Workplace death caused by exposure to welding fumes
- Workplace death caused by suffocation in a tank
- 2nd and 3rd degree burns over 30% of the body caused by a natural gas well fire
- Arm crushed in defective conveyor belt machine
Product Defects
- Pharmaceutical marketing defect that resulted in the slow death of a mother of three adult children
- Exercise facility failed to properly maintain equipment, which resulted in three herniated cervical (neck) disks
- A three vehicle collision caused by a tire detread that resulted in two deaths