Case Results
At Venardi Zurada LLP, we are proud to showcase our proven success in securing justice for clients throughout the Bay Area. Our team has achieved remarkable results in personal injury and employment law cases, delivering substantial settlements and verdicts. With a reputation built on dedication, expertise, and unwavering commitment, we continue to fight for the rights of those who need it most.
Below, you can select a category and an attorney to look at filtered case results at Venardi Zurada.
Disclaimer: Results will vary from case to case.
Settlement
$2.7 Million
Medical Malpractice
Med Mal case from birthing malpractice causing hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and paralysis of newborn.
*Obtained prior to joining Venardi Zurada.
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Insurance Bad Faith
$2.6 Million
Unlawful Insurance Practices / Bad Faith
Contractor failed to build property pursuant to architect’s plans, and insurer denied claims in bad faith.
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Settlement
$2.5 Million
Pedestrian Accidents
Our client was a pedestrian at a crosswalk when she was struck by a young driver who was unaware of the crosswalk or our client’s presence. Our client was struck and suffered serious injuries to her body and head.
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Settlement
$2.35 Million
Personal Injury
Our client made glass figurines finished in a paint thinner and lacquer mix. Both of our clients developed cancer. We retained all the appropriate experts, proved that the paint thinner contained benzene, which was causally related to our clients’ cancer. The case settled after a battle of the experts for $2,350,000.
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Jury Trial Verdict
$2.3 Million
Personal Injury
Our client was injured while riding a device manufactured by Defendant. The case settled after a three-week jury trial with a $2,300,000 verdict.
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Settlement
$2 Million
Retaliation ClaimsWrongful Termination
Mark Venardi represented a client that worked for a Bay Area company with over 350 employees. Our client suffered from mental illness issues following gut wrenching and traumatic family matters. Our client’s psychologist wrote to the employer and asked that our client be allowed to work from home 50 percent of the time for a relatively short period of time. The employer refused. Our client complained and the company escalated its unlawful behavior and forced our client out of the company. Mental illness is a big deal, and our client deserved the best representation. We fought hard to establish the factual basis for liability against the employer, and after approximately 1.5 years of litigation we persuaded the employer to pay our deserving client $2,000,000. Our client’s rights were honored and hopefully the employer will change its ways.
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Settlement
$2 Million
Wrongful Death
Our client’s daughter was putting gas in her car on the side of the road. Defendant driving a van veered off the road and killed our client’s daughter. The case settled for $1,000,000.
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Settlement
$2 Million
Premise Liability
Restaurant employee seated our client at a table where a room divider curtain hid an object with a sharp point on it. Our client bent over to pick something up from the floor and struck his head on the concealed sharp corner. Our client suffered a traumatic brain injury. We sued Defendant for negligently concealing the sharp and dangerous object. The case settled for insurance policy limits of $2,000,000.
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Settlement
$1.7 Million
Toxic Tort
Our client was exposed to toxic chemicals and developed cancer. This was a heartbreaking case because our client’s condition became terminal during the course of the litigation. While these cases are very challenging, they are worth the fight and we pushed hard to negotiate with the defendant so that our client and his family could be secure.
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Settlement
$1.5 Million
Discrimination ClaimsEmploymentRetaliation ClaimsWrongful Termination
Judgment in excess of $1.5 million (with attorneys’ fees). Employees v. Indian Restaurant: Four employees of a restaurant were wrongfully terminated and threatened with deportation after they complained about repeated wage and hour violations by the employer. The employees worked more than 60 hours per week and were frequently shorted on their already meager “salaries”. The employer repeatedly promised to make up the backpay in the future and, after employees became persistent in their complaints about the unpaid wages and long hours, the owners of the restaurant threatened to call immigration authorities and have the employees deported. We prevailed at trial, persisted through six bankruptcies, multiple fraudulent liens on assets, and eventually seized three investment properties belonging to the employers.
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Judgment
$1.5 million
Employment
Martin Zurada led a case for two disadvantaged and frequently houseless immigrants who were cheated and abused by an unscrupulous motel owner in Oakland. Both were cheated out of their wages for the hard work they had been putting in at the motel. Worse yet, our female client was repeatedly sexually harassed and assaulted by the motel owner. The motel owner knew that our female client was in need of the income from her motel job to obtain stable housing and regain custody of her children. He never imagined that these powerless people would fight back or find a law firm that would believe in them and would fight for their rights. We fought numerous motions and other delay tactics to get to trial. The highest offer we ever got was “$5,000” for both of our clients. We were told that our clients had a “nuisance” lawsuit that was worth nothing. We couldn’t wait for years for a jury trial in Alameda County, so we agreed to bring the case before a judge to speed up the wheels of justice. After a five-day trial led by Martin Zurada, we obtained a judgment for over $800,000 for our clients, and then we augmented it with an award of over $750,000 in attorney’s fees and costs. We then aggressively pursued collection, and, within six months of the trial, we forced the sale of the motel where all of the wrongdoing happened which resulted in our clients and our firm obtaining full money justice.
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Settlement
$1.35 Million
Wrongful Termination
Our client was an Area Manager for a large financial institution. He was terminated after he complained about another manager sexually harassing one of the employees, and after our client participated in an investigation of the complaints. The case settled through mediation for $1,350,000.
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