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    • Darrell A. Forgey

    By Emily Green | Oct. 17, 2013
    Neutrals

    Oct. 17, 2013

    Darrell A. Forgey

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    Judicate West Los Angeles Specialties: medical malpractice, product liability and catastrophic injury

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    Be prepared to wait if you want Forgey to mediate or arbitrate your case. He's booked three months in advance and hears two to three cases a day. He also has a growing arbitration practice comprising roughly 25 percent of his business. In the past year, the former trial attorney mediated a case involving a 70-year-old pedestrian who was hit by a commercial vehicle while crossing the street. He fractured both of his legs and a hip and claimed traumatic brain injury. The case settled for $5 million.


    In September, Forgey settled a case involving a woman with muscular dystrophy who was rear-ended by a truck. The woman had to have a cervical fusion in her neck as a result. Forgey said the looming question during mediation was whether the trauma of an accident could exacerbate the woman's muscular dystrophy. The case settled for $675,000.


    Forgey says he is not naturally touchy-feely. "I can get touchy-feely if the case demands it," he said. And every once in a while, he said, he likes to play devil's advocate. He adds, "Sometimes the settlement value of a case and what it takes to settle a case are not always the same. It can be more and it can be less."

    - Emily Green

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