Wrongful Death

Steve S. v. City of Sacramento, et al., Motor Vehicle Collision: Wrongful death of 9- month-old infant Record settlement of $9.75 million obtained in trial Attorney John Demas represented the parents of Raiden S., a 9-month-old baby that was killed in a motor vehicle collision involving a police officer for the City of Sacramento, obtaining […]

John N. Demas represented the two sisters (Rosa S. & Leticia H.) in a wrongful death case. The case arose from a motor-vehicle collision on Highway 12 in Tuolumne County. The driver of the vehicle was Pedro H., 76. His wife, Mrs. H., was a passenger. The vehicle was traveling east-bound on Highway 12 when […]

Attorney John Demas represented Ruth M. and her two daughters, the surviving family of decedent Tom M. Tom was on his first week of work as a truck driver and lived in the Sacramento area. A few weeks before the trucking accident, he graduated from truck driving school and had obtained his commercial driver’s license. […]

On a beautiful summer night, Katherine F. and her 9-year-old daughter, Victoria, went to a local car wash in Sacramento to vacuum their car. While her mom was cleaning the car, Victoria got out of the car and walked around. She walked a few feet from the car and grabbed a light pole. As soon […]

We represented the parents of a two-year-old girl who was killed when she was run over by a van. The defendants argued that they were not negligent because the defendant driver could not see the girl when he got in his van, and assumed that her mother or the other adults present were watching her. […]