Hadady v Park, Los Angeles County Superior Court Case Number BC568172.



Attorney Cameron Brock of Burg and Brock is listed by the Los Angeles Superior Court as the lead attorney filing the lawsuit.




The California Court of Appeals also lists Cameron Brock as one of the attorneys filing the appeal.




The California State Bar says attorney Cameron Brock is also known as Cameron Yadidi.




There are other attorneys at Burg and Brock and we do not know who specifically handled what parts of the case. But it appears to us Mr. Brock is listed as a responsible attorney on court documents, and is listed by the California Secretary of State's Office as the CEO, officer, director, and agent for service for his law firm Burg and Brock.




According to Lawzilla's understanding of the Court of Appeals ruling, this is what happened:

Cameron Brock, Esq. and his law firm represented a woman in a personal injury case. She was injured in a rear-end auto accident.

Liability was admitted. The only issue at trial was the amount of damages to award for plaintiffs' injuries.

Mr. Brock's law firm argued for $1,739,706 in damages. The jury only awarded $6900. By our calculations this is about 0.4 percent of the amount claimed.




In its discussion of the trial the court of appeals had a couple interesting comments.

First, the court of appeals described the incident as a minor fender bender.

The defendant was traveling at only 5 miles per hour.

The defendant's car had a scratched license plate and fender.

The plaintiff's car had damage to the rear bumper and trunk.

Although plaintiff's car was pushed forward by the impact the front of her car suffered no damage when it bumped into the car in front of it.




After the accident Brock's client told the defendant, and another motorist at the scene, that she was fine and not injured.

The police were not called.

No ambulance was requested.

Attorney Brock's client drove away after the incident.




Cameron Brock's client at trial, though, claimed she was nauseated, dizzy, could not stand up.

Then she had debilitating pain, migraine headaches, and bit her fingernails.

She admitted to being in another car accident a year before that totaled her vehicle - but had no effect on her health.




The Burg and Brock firm asked for $1,739,706 in damages.

The jury said only $6,900 was appropriate.




A unanimous court of appeal panel of three judges affirmed the decision.

From our read of the appellate decision this appears to be a bad trial in our opinion. If Cameron Brock accurately valued the case then an award of about only 0.4% of the damages is bad. If Cameron Brock was not accurate and over-valued the case then that reflects badly on his competence.

Either way - either the attorney only recovered a tiny amount of damages (and likely took a huge amount of that for legal fees and costs) or did not properly evaluate the case, this is not what we would want in an attorney.

Defendant suggested the jury award at most $9900. By our calculations that means the value attorney Brock and his law firm obtained after a full case, lengthy trial and appeal was in the negative. It would have been better to take the defendant's suggestion of $9900.

On the other hand, the defense attorney's valuation of the case was roughly what the jury awarded. Even more. In our opinion the defense was probably ecstatic about the jury award.

From what we read, in our non-expert opinion it appears Cameron Brock and his firm did a poor job at trial of convincing the jury about plaintiff's claims and validity of their arguments.

Based on this opinion, we believe a seriously injured plaintiff may be better served by another attorney. Perhaps even the opposing attorney in this case who appears to have more accurately evaluated the damages.


The court of appeals did describe the outcome as a credibility contest. But given the facts laid out by the justices, our read of the case (5 mph, no injury claimed at scene, able to drive home, and comparison to prior accident totaling car but causing no injury) is $1.7 million seems like a gross over-reach. More importantly, client credibility is an important issue we believe a trial attorney should be able to evaluate as part of making a reasonable damages claim.

Cameron Brock was admitted to the California Bar in 1996. Bar Number 183112.

Burg and Brock
4554 Sherman Oaks Avenue
Sherman Oaks, California 91403

Law School: Western State University