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Senior Partner Stephen Garcia was selected to Los Angeles Business Journal’s Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys 2023 list for protecting the interests of the elderly in thousands of elder abuse and nursing home neglect cases. To date, his efforts have resulted in over $3 billion in results. For nearly four decades, Garcia has…

Garcia & Artigliere filed a class action lawsuit against California-based nursing home Sunnyside Nursing Center for allegedly failing to employ an adequate number of staff to provide care to those living at the facility and siphoning off required funds for resident care for their own profit. These issues were not only directly harmful to the…

Senior Partner Stephen Garcia was featured in the National Trial Lawyers’ Trial Lawyer Magazine, giving insight into his life and his career, which spans from his fantasy job as a pro surfer to his proudest moment as a trial lawyer: winning his first elder abuse case in 1991. The publication also highlights his most notable…

Senior Partner Stephen M. Garcia was selected for inclusion in Los Angeles Times’ Southern California’s Leading Lawyers 2023 list, recognized for his impactful work in elder abuse law. Garcia’s highlighted successes include securing a $5 million verdict for a 92-year-old dependent adult woman who suffered elder abuse and neglect, and obtaining a $38.6 million settlement…

Garcia & Artigliere lawyers Stephen M. Garcia and Matthew Coman secured a $4.2 million settlement against a Kentucky hospital, which allowed one of its surgeons to inappropriately place medical devices on his patients which were sold exclusively by his wife. The lawsuit alleged that these devices were not medically necessary. Rather, the physician, using his…

After more than five years of litigation, Garcia & Artigliere attorney Stephen M. Garcia acquired $12 million in a class action on behalf of victims of understaffing at California skilled nursing facilities in a preliminary settlement submitted to the court for approval. The lawsuit sought to ensure skilled nursing facilities staff meet the needs of…

Garcia & Artigliere attorney Stephen M. Garcia obtained a $700,000 settlement on behalf of the Plaintiff who suffered elder abuse and neglect while she was a resident of a Pasadena Residential Care Facility for the Elderly. The Plaintiff was admitted to the facility because she was no longer able to live at home due to…

Senior Partner Stephen M. Garcia was selected to National Law Journal’s 2023 Plaintiffs’ Attorney Trailblazers list for his deep impact in elder abuse matters, winning over $3 billion for his clients. For nearly four decades, Garcia has exclusively represented vulnerable persons in high-stakes, complex cases, and has illustrated through his matters that these abusers are…

Garcia & Artigliere attorneys Stephen M. Garcia and Matthew M. Coman obtained an $860,000 settlement from a Kentucky hospital on behalf of the Plaintiff whose deceased mother suffered from a botched surgery to repair her fractured left femur, resulting in an unjustified above knee amputation as well as an additional surgery and ongoing pain and…

Attorneys Stephen M. Garcia and William M. Artigliere’s $4.4 million jury verdict on behalf of a dependent adult woman who suffered elder abuse and neglect while she was a resident of Ivy Creek Healthcare and Wellness Centre was named to TopVerdict’s Top 50 Verdicts in California for 2022. In Arcelia Martinez v. Shlomo Rechnitz; San…