Torts/Personal Injury,
Health Care & Hospital Law
Jun. 22, 2023
Medical recklessness claims in California
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Mike Arias
Managing Partner
Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team LLP
Phone: (310) 844-9696
Email: mike@asstlawyers.com
He is a past president of both the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) and Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), two of the largest trial lawyer associations in the nation. He was also named a CAOC Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2021.
Alena Klimianok
Trial Attorney
Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team LLP
McGeorge SOL Univ of the Pacific; CA
Recklessness is a term of art. The law defines recklessness as a subjective state of culpability greater than simple negligence and a deliberate disregard of the high degree of probability that an injury will occur. Unlike negligence, recklessness involves more than inadvertence, incompetence, unskillfulness, or a failure to take precautions, but rather rises to a level of a conscious course of action … with kno...
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