Miss Simmons received her JD from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Her practice will focus on the defense of individuals, businesses, and entities who have been sued in transportation, product liability, public entity defense, and premises liability. She has been lead trial counsel in several trials to verdict.
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Congratulations to partner Jeff Levine for being selected as 2023 Northern California Super Lawyers.
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California law imposes a duty on everyone, including landlords, to exercise reasonable care, and Defendants failed to show public policy considerations to justify departing from that general duty; and causation, as it is in most cases, is a factual issue.
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A plaintiff opposing a summary judgment motion involving a property damage coverage claim must: 1) Be able to present proof that the alteration of its property actually caused damage; 2) Identify the specific property that has been damaged; 3) Present proof whether that property had to be replaced or was no longer usable; and 4) Present evidence of the dollar amount t of its loss.
Under the Government Claims Act, a plaintiff complies with the claim presentation requirement when the complaint alleges facts that are factually equivalent to the facts within the government claim, and failure to file a proper government claim timely is fatal to maintaining a civil action against a public entity. Cal. Gov’t Code § 835.