Ball & Yorke deserves its outstanding reputation as competent and aggressive litigators, having obtained over $40 million in settlements and verdicts for its individual clients since 1998.
The firm has unmatched skill with respect to cases involving Wrongful Death, Auto Accidents, Serious Personal Injury, Insurance Issues and Disputes, Bad Faith, Wrongful Termination, Slip and Falls, Motorcycle Accidents, Dog Bites, Real Estate Matters, ERISA, Construction Defects, and Medical and Legal Malpractice.
The firm has also been instrumental in protecting and recognizing the rights of individuals:
- Ball & Yorke recovered $2,000,000 for an eleven year old girl poisoned by exposure to lead paint.
- After a two week court trial, Ball & Yorke won a judgment in the amount of $1,313,880 for violations of California's immigration consultant act in the case of Santiago v. Velasco. The case received national media attention in pieces published by the Associated Press.
- In Ragsdale v. Ralph Grocery Company, a Ventura jury awarded, and Ball & Yorke recovered, $524,470 for a slip and fall in a grocery store.
- $850,000 was obtained to settle claims of insurance bad faith and broker malpractice Ball & Yorke brought for clients, a husband and wife, who were improperly denied uninsured motorist insurance benefits.
- A Ball & Yorke client received $1,450,000 for injuries suffered in a car accident.
- Rosales v. Thermex-Thermatron, Inc. (1998) 67 Cal.App.4th 187, saw Ball & Yorke prevail on a landmark case of strict products and successor liability, meriting a net judgment of $544,875.37 and, in addition an award of $123,002.85 in attorneys' fees and costs assessed against the defendant for failure to admit requests for admissions. In the decade since it was published, the Rosales precedent has been cited over two dozen times in scholarly articles, annotated statutes, model jury instructions, and legal treatises.
- A San Diego court awarded a client of Ball & Yorke over $169,000 in unpaid wages in the matter of Armstrong v. CJ Torre Construction.
- Siegel v. Prudential Ins. Co. (1998) 67 Cal.App.4th 1270, the Court of Appeal upheld an arbitration award of over $1,338,000 obtained by Ball & Yorke in a wrongful termination case. The Siegel case has been cited over seventeen times in law review articles, annotated statutes, and legal treatises.
- Peralta v. Hispanic Bus., Inc. (2005) 419 F.3d 1064 and Olive v. Am. Express Long Term Disability Benefit Plan (2001) 183 F. Supp. 2d 1191 saw Ball & Yorke set new ground in the Federal Courts for issues arising under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"). The Peralta decision led the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals to recognize, for the first time, the existence of a new right for employees.
- For the case of Bartish v. Berquisit, a jury awarded $474,754.00 to a Ball & Yorke client who suffered injuries in a motorcycle accident.
Ball & Yorke was built and established upon an unparalleled dedication to serving the needs of their clients. Clients are properly seen as people, and are even remembered on a first name basis.
At the same time, these clients are provided with quality representation, and are treated fairly and with respect. In fact, well over 90% of the firm's current client base are referrals from other clients or attorneys, or have been successfully represented by the firm in the past. On this strength above all others, Ball & Yorke currently and will remain one of Ventura County's premier law firms for years to come.
* The results listed above reflect only a small sample of the types of cases that the Law Office of Ball & Yorke have handled. Because many variables contribute to determining the value of any particular case, settlement, judgment, or award, your case may be worth significantly less, or more, than the cases listed below, even where the facts may appear similar or comparable.