Kristy & Kananen - Long Beach, CA

• Construction Defects
• Employment

• A Showdown between Shapiro and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act: Infringement of the Right to Trave, Whittier Law Review, 449, 1998

• 2022 Confidential Settlement, Construction Defect: A Total Amount Between $850,000 and $900,000. Represented multiple Southern California homeowners whose homes had suffered damage from construction defects. Result was achieved with co-counsel.
• 2021 Confidential Settlement, Employment, an Amount Between $50,000 and $75,000.
• 2021 Confidential Settlement, Construction Defect: A Total Amount Between $500,000 and $550,000. Represented multiple Southern California homeowners whose homes had suffered damage from construction defects. Result was achieved with co-counsel.
• 2021 Confidential Settlement, Employment: $225,000. Represented a terminated individual who alleged violations of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act.
• 2021 Confidential Settlement, Construction Defect: An Amount Between $200,000 and $250,000. Represented a family in Southern California whose home had suffered damage from construction defects. Result was achieved with co-counsel.
• 2021 Confidential Settlement, Employment: $300,000. Represented multiple non-exempt employees who had been paid on a “salary” basis but who were due overtime. The case involved multiple wage-andhour claims for each individual Plaintiff.
• 2020 Confidential Settlement, Insurance Bad Faith: $325,000. Represented multiple family members whose home was damaged by trees falling from a neighboring property. Plaintiffs alleged that their home’s insurer failed to honor its legal duties under the policy and underpaid their claim. With co-counsel Kurt E. Kananen, Esq.
• 2019 Settlement, Negligence (Damage to Real Property): $125,000,
• 2019 Settlement, Negligence: $700,000, Grimsley v. Hanjin Shipping Tec, Inc., et al., Los Angeles County Superior Court. Represented the injured Plaintiff, who was injured when his parked truck was struck by another truck. With co-counsel Calvin C. Schneider III, Esq.
• 2019 Confidential Settlement, Negligence (Damage to Real Property): $180,000. Represented a husband and wife whose custom-built home had defective windows. With co-counsel Kurt E. Kananen, Esq.
• 2018 Confidential Settlement, Insurance Bad Faith: $100,000. Represented a business whose insurer refused to defend and indemnify it under an employment-practices liability insurance (“EPLI”) policy.
• 2018 Confidential Settlement, Employment: $200,000. Represented an executive of a large corporation who was forced to resign under intolerable working conditions. Settled this dispute prior to filing a complaint for constructive discharge, harassment and retaliation, all in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”).
• 2017 Confidential Settlement, Negligence (Damage to Real Property): $265,000. Represented a husband and wife whose home had been damaged by a contractor attempting to repair and stabilize the home’s foundation. Plaintiffs also recovered against the realtor of the seller of the home for failure to disclose known defects. With co-counsel Kurt E. Kananen, Esq.
• 2017 Confidential Settlement, Employment: $125,000. Represented a female employee who was terminated after suffering an on-the-job injury. The lawsuit alleged wrongful termination in violation of public policy, discrimination, and harassment, all in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)
• 2014 Confidential Settlement, Insurance Bad Faith: $695,000. Represented the father of a child who was denied mental-health benefits under the father’s health plan. With co-counsel Scott C. Glovsky, Esq.
• 2012 Confidential Settlement, Insurance Bad Faith: $403,000. Represented the mother of a daughter who died overseas after being denied essential medical treatment under a health plan. With cocounsel Scott C. Glovsky.
• 2012 Confidential Settlement, Construction Defect: $155,000. Represented a condominium homeowners association against the builder of all of the condominium for construction defects. With cocounsel Kurt E. Kananen, Esq.
• 2012 Confidential Settlement, Insurance Bad Faith: $200,000. Represented a couple whose home suffered water damage and whose insurer denied benefits under the insurance policy. With co-counsel.
• 2012 Arbitration Award, Wrongful Death / Medical Malpractice: $151,219. Represented the parents of an infant who died while being treated at a Kaiser Permanente hospital, and whose death could have been prevented.
• 2011 Confidential Settlement, Breach of Fiduciary Duty and Negligence: $750,000. A custom, single-family home experienced uneven settlement due to soil movement. The HOA that managed the hillside community failed to inform homeowners about known soil movement. A contractor the owners hired to correct the uneven settlement caused further damage. The Kristy Law Firm recovered from the HOA, the contractor, and the contractor’s soils engineer.
• 2008 Confidential Settlement, Insurance Bad Faith: $3 million. Represented the parents of a daughter who died after being denied essential medical treatment under a health plan. With co-counsel Scott C. Glovsky.

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