Personal injury lawyer · Van Nuys, California
Van Nuys Personal Injury Lawyer
Seven miles up Roscoe, and two of the Valley’s courthouses, on Sylmar Avenue and Erwin Street Mall.
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The roads
Where do accidents happen in Van Nuys?
Van Nuys has more serious collisions than most of the Valley, and they happen on its grid of boulevards: Van Nuys Boulevard from Roscoe down to Ventura, Sepulveda Boulevard alongside the 405, and the crossings, east and west, at Roscoe, Sherman Way, Vanowen, Victory and Burbank. The intersections of Van Nuys and Sherman Way, Sepulveda and Victory, and Van Nuys and Victory are the ones that appear again and again. The 405 ramps at Roscoe, Sherman Way and Victory bring freeway speed onto surface streets.
Pedestrians are hit along Van Nuys Boulevard near the Orange Line station and the courthouse, where the boulevard is wide and the crossings are long. The industrial streets around Van Nuys Airport carry trucks that turn without seeing cyclists.
Aryan Aliakbarzadeh, Esq. handles crashes on these roads from his office in Northridge.
Van Nuys
Van Nuys hospitals, and its two courthouses
Where you will be taken
Valley Presbyterian Hospital on Vanowen Street is Van Nuys’s own emergency department. Serious trauma from Van Nuys goes to Northridge Hospital Medical Center on Roscoe Boulevard or to Providence Holy Cross in Mission Hills, both Level II trauma centers; Kaiser Permanente Panorama City is close for Kaiser members. Sherman Oaks Hospital, at the south end of Van Nuys Boulevard, takes burns and lesser injuries.
Which court hears the case
Two of the Valley’s courthouses are in Van Nuys: Van Nuys Courthouse East on Sylmar Avenue and Van Nuys Courthouse West on Erwin Street Mall, the Northwest District of the Los Angeles Superior Court. Personal injury lawsuits are filed in the court district where the incident happened (Local Rule 2.3), and the court’s filing court locator gives the district for a zip code. Most claims settle with the insurer before either.
About Van Nuys
Van Nuys is the working centre of the Valley: the civic buildings on Sylmar Avenue, the airport, the auto shops and body shops along Sepulveda and Van Nuys Boulevard, and a population that gets around on the bus and on foot more than the neighbourhoods either side of it. It is dense, busy and fast, and its collisions involve pedestrians and cyclists more often than the rest of the Valley’s do.
From the Northridge office
The office is about seven miles from central Van Nuys: west on Roscoe Boulevard or Sherman Way to Reseda Boulevard, then south to 8535 Reseda, just below Parthenia Street. About twenty minutes by car, or the Roscoe or Reseda bus lines. Consultations are by phone or in person, open 24 hours.
Your attorney
Aryan Aliakbarzadeh, Esq.
Personal injury attorney in Northridge, California. Admitted to the State Bar of California in October 2012, No. 284358; 14 years in practice. Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 5 years in a row.
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Questions
Questions from Van Nuys
Which police division covers Van Nuys crashes?
The LAPD Van Nuys Division, on Sylmar Avenue next to the courthouse. Freeway collisions on the 405 are the California Highway Patrol.
I was hit near the Orange Line. Does Metro matter?
If a Metro bus was involved, the claim is against a public agency and has a much shorter deadline: a claim must be presented to Metro within months. Call early.
If my case goes to court, where would it be heard?
In the Valley. Personal injury lawsuits are filed in the court district where the incident happened, under the court’s Local Rule 2.3, so a Van Nuys case is not sent downtown. The court’s filing court locator gives the district, and so the courthouse, for a zip code. Most claims settle without a hearing.
Do I have to come to Northridge from Van Nuys?
No, though you are welcome to. Most of a claim is medical records, the collision report and dealing with the insurer, and your treatment stays near you, at Valley Presbyterian on Vanowen or with your own doctor. The office is seven miles west, out Roscoe or Sherman Way to Reseda Boulevard, on the Roscoe and Reseda bus lines, whenever you want to come in.
I fell on a broken sidewalk in Van Nuys. Who do I claim against?
The City of Los Angeles in most cases, sometimes the owner of the property beside it. A claim against the city must be presented within six months of the fall under Government Code §911.2, before any lawsuit. Photograph the defect with something for scale before it is repaired.
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Where is the office?
Accident Lawyer of California, P.C. is at 8535 Reseda Blvd. #100, Northridge, CA 91324, in the San Fernando Valley.
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- Office
- 8535 Reseda Blvd. #100, Northridge, CA 91324
- Hours
- Open 24 hours
- Serving
- Northridge · Porter Ranch · Van Nuys · Sherman Oaks · Woodland Hills · Reseda · Canoga Park · Encino · Granada Hills
- Phone
- 818-718-2522
- Text
- 818-718-2522
- info@alca4u.com