EXAMPLES OF MEDIATIONS/ARBITRATIONS/NEUTRAL EVALUATIONS/
SETTLEMENT CONFERENCES CONDUCTED BY RICHARD N. FRIEDMAN, ESQUIRE.
ARBITRATIONS
-All types of securities disputes in arbitrations. [NYSE/NASD/FINRA]
-All types of business and commercial disputes in arbitrations. [AAA]
-All types of disputes in entertainment [CA LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS]
MEDIATIONS:
NEGLIGENCE-AUTO ACCIDENTS
-Auto accident involving drunk driver, personal injuries, and punitive damages.
-Three car chain reaction auto accident.
-Auto accident-Defendant hit parked car with driver in it.
-Three car accident. Insufficient insurance to cover all damages.
-Plaintiff stopped for light, rear-ended by flat-bed tow truck on freeway entrance pushing plaintiff into car ahead. Plaintiff’s car a complete loss. Plaintiff suffered personal injuries.
-Five car auto accident involving bodily injury claims-how to split up insurance proceeds
-Auto accident-PI/PD/WD.
-Insurance company, as subrogee, suing in uninsured motorist case.
NEGLIGENCE-OTHER
-Slips and falls in supermarkets.
-Claim, by a wheel chair bound paraplegic against a city, who was injured by falling out of his wheelchair while crossing a street with deep gashes in the surface.
-Plaintiff tripped over metal plate covering trench at construction site and was injured.
-Golf driving range not having barrier to prevent golf balls from hitting neighboring businesses, cars and people.
-Premises liability- Office.
-Product Liability (not asbestos, toxic, environmental).
-Quiet title/Adverse possession; Trespass re boundary line and wall of parking lot; Repairs to parking lot; Destruction of dividing wall between two adjacent commercial properties.
LANDLORD-TENANT
-Return of a deposit to hold an apartment which was not rented.
-Alteration of a tenant’s check increasing the amount thereon allegedly by a management company.
-Breach of rental agreement by landlord. Constructive eviction/Premises not habitable-bedbugs, cockroaches.
-Landlord (Defendant), owner of a single family house, refused to return security deposit and claimed damages in excess of same.
-Landlord-Tenant issues regarding commercial lease in strip shopping center.
-Landlord-Tenants issues in low income seniors housing.
-Unlawful Detainer- Sub-Tenant failed to pay lessee rent and allegedly caused lessee other damages.
-Landlord refused to reinstate long-term tenant who was late with payment of rent.
-Water leak and damages caused thereby to tenant’s property, lease terminated by mutual consent- issue, the amount of former tenant’s property damages.
-Breach of Lease Contract.
-Unlawful Detainers- Various
CIVIL HARASSMENT
-Invasion of privacy between neighbors involving cameras and physical acts of mischief.
-Neighbor sued neighbor for allowing dog to excrete body fluids on or near mailbox located on city property in front of home.
-Alleged stalking by rejected “suitor” of female neighbor in rental apartment building.
CIVIL RIGHTS
-Americans with Disabilities Act/C A Unruh Act re width of parking and signs at a strip mall for disabled persons who drive vans.
-Americans with Disabilities Act/ CA Unruh Act re height and accessibility of towel dispensers in commercial laundromat.
-While looking for unregistered sex offender, pursuant to search warrant, at single family home of his brother, at 7:00 A.M., police allegedly injured homeowner on front lawn by using excessive force to control homeowner. Sex offender brother, who was a street person who was only allowed to stay one night, was caught running out the back door.
-Declaratory Relief pursuant to CA Health & Safety Code, Section 1428 (B); Long-Term Care, Health and Security Act of 1973-Patient went into a diabetic coma, became brain dead, and died.
CONTRACTS
-Attorney-Client fee disputes [LACBA]
-Renegotiation of payment and interest rate terms with major credit card company.
-Dispute between real estate broker who sold residence and former seller/customer over the conduct of the real estate broker pursuant to the listing agreement.
-Dispute over amounts private lender charged to borrower in financing agreement for legal fees and interest, and how lender handled securities serving as collateral for loan.
-Foreclosure/ Loan modification.
-Collection by bank from a debtor.
-Collection-Alleged contractual fraud.
-Insurance coverage-Subrogation.
-Taxi driver sought from lessor of taxicab and certificate owner alleged overpayment of monthly rental fees and lost income because lessor refused to sign form permitting taxi driver to drive a different taxi.
-Consumer complaint against a company which manufactured a battery charger purchased for a computer, which allegedly destroyed computer.
-Cancelled plane flight or lack of foreign connection in London-sought cash refund, frequent flier miles offered.
-Employment-Wrongful Termination.