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Litigation

Dec. 18, 2010

Long Beach Restaurant Must Pay $6.8 Million

A jury recently awarded $6.8 million in a case against the Gaslamp Restaurant & Bar in Long Beach after a UC Berkeley senior on a football scholarship suffered permanent brain damage after a security guard at the bar struck him.


By Ben Adlin and Erica E. Phillips


Daily Journal Staff Writers


A jury recently awarded $6.8 million in a case against the Gaslamp Restaurant & Bar in Long Beach after a UC Berkeley senior on a football scholarship suffered permanent brain damage after a security guard at the bar struck him.


Criminal defense and personal injury attorney Michael Kopple said he's building part of his practice around such cases because bars and restaurants...

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