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- Every case is different. The outcome depends on the injury, the medical evidence, the wage, the occupation, the age, the apportionmentApportionment Dividing permanent disability between industrial and non-industrial causes. It is to disability, not to findings on an image., and a dozen other facts specific to that person. Any firm implying otherwise is telling you something untrue.
- Three things are missing from the numbers below and each of them changes how a number should be read: the year, what was actually in dispute, and the settlement structure. We say so rather than leaving you to assume.
- We intend to publish sub-$100,000 outcomes alongside the large ones — because a wall of six- and seven-figure numbers makes someone with a modest claim conclude their case is not worth anyone’s time. That is both false and harmful.
What this page is for is showing you what the work looks like — the kinds of problems we solve and how. It is not a forecast, and the sections that follow are unusually candid about what a results page can and cannot honestly claim.
Read this first
Every case is different. The outcome of any workers’ compensation case depends on the injury, the medical evidence, the wage, the occupation, the age, the apportionment, and a dozen other facts specific to that person. Nothing on this page predicts what will happen in yours, and any firm implying otherwise is telling you something untrue.
The result portrayed in this advertisement was dependent on the facts of that case, and the results will differ if based on different facts.
Representative recoveries
AMOUNT · THE FACTS THAT PRODUCED IT
$3,500,000
Roofer · traumatic brain injury.
Our client fell from a height on a Southern California residential roofing project and lived through a traumatic brain injury and a full year of inpatient rehabilitation.
$1,800,000
Catastrophic injury · lifetime home care.
Our client’s industrial injuries left them needing twelve hours a day of in-home care, for life.
$850,000
Failed back syndrome · upper-extremity surgeries.
Our client developed failed back syndrome and went through two unsuccessful upper-extremity surgeries.
$725,000
Back surgery complications.
Our client’s back surgery resulted in an incisional hernia and progressive deterioration.
$400,000
Severe back injury · cane-dependent.
Client sustained a severe lumbar spine injury at work and was left unable to work or walk without a cane.
Every case is decided on its own facts and law. The settlements and awards described above involve specific clients in specific circumstances. They are shared to illustrate the range of recoveries the firm has obtained — not as predictions or guarantees of what your case will produce.
What a number like these is made of
A recovery is built from parts. It is not read off a chart for the injury. That is why two people with the same injury can end in very different places, and why the parts of your own case are worth knowing before anyone puts a number on it.
THE RATING
The permanent disabilityPD Permanent Disability. Compensation for lasting impairment. A different and much lower weekly rate — 2026 maximum $290/week. percentage, turned into weeks of payments: 3 weeks per point at the bottom of the scale, 16 at the top, at weekly rates frozen since 2014. A rating dispute near the 70% line is worth fighting hard.
THE LIFE PENSION
At 70% and above, a payment for the rest of your life on top of the award, rising every year. A settlement that pays the chart value and quietly extinguishes it is a catastrophic settlement. It is also a common one.
FUTURE MEDICAL CARE
The biggest variable in a lump-sum settlement, and the hardest to price. The carrier projects it from what it actually paid over the last twelve to twenty-four months.
WHAT WAS OWED AND NOT PAID
Unpaid or underpaid temporary disabilityTD / TTD / TPD Temporary Disability, Total or Partial. Wage replacement while recovering. Two-thirds of average weekly earnings; 2026 maximum $1,764.11/week., the penalties for paying it late, and interest.
THE VOUCHER AND THE SUPPLEMENT
The $6,000 job displacement voucher if you did not return to work, and the separate $5,000 Return-to-Work Supplement, applied for within one year.
WHAT IS NOT IN IT
No pain and suffering, no emotional distress, no punitive damages. If someone other than your employer contributed, a third-party claim can reach those damages. The comp case cannot.
What this page does not yet say, and should
We are going to add, for each result: the year, what was actually in dispute, and the settlement structure. Those three things are missing above, and each of them changes how a number should be read.
THE YEAR MATTERS
Because the law changes. A result obtained in 2014 came out of a materially different rating and treatment framework than a 2026 one.
WHAT WAS IN DISPUTE MATTERS
A denial fought to a finding of compensability, an apportionment attack, a rating dispute, a treatment denial through IMRIMR Independent Medical Review. The appeal from a UR denial. 30 days (10 if the dispute is only over drugs on the MTUS Drug List)., and a permanent total disabilityPTD Permanent Total Disability. 100%. Paid at the temporary disability rate for life. case are different kinds of work.
AND THE SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE MATTERS MOST OF ALL
Because a Compromise and ReleaseC&R — Compromise and Release A lump sum that closes future medical treatment permanently. and a Stipulated Award of the same dollar value are not the same result. One closes future medical. The other does not.
Including the small ones
We intend to publish sub-$100,000 outcomes alongside the large ones, which is unusual and deliberate.
Every firm’s results page is a wall of six- and seven-figure numbers, and the effect on someone with a modest claim is that they conclude their case is not worth anyone’s time. That is both false and harmful. A worker with a $40,000 rating who was being offered $12,000, or whose future medical was about to be closed for a few thousand dollars, got real help — and that is the case most people reading this page actually have.
Showing that work is more useful to more people than another headline number.
What comes out of a recovery
Whatever the figure on a results page, the fee and any liens come out of it before a client is paid. A judge sets the fee, not the lawyer. The Appeals Board’s own guidance:
- Below 9%, as low as 1%
- Where the case was essentially uncontested and required little work
- 9% to 12%
- A case of average complexity
- Above 12%
- New legal theories, heavily disputed facts or medical issues, extensive investigation, lengthy hearings, or multiple defendants. 15% is common in genuinely contested cases
- No fee unless we recover — And you are not responsible for costs we advance if there is no recovery.
- Medical treatment benefits are generally not subject to the fee — If your attorney wins authorization for your surgery, you do not pay a percentage of the surgery.
- Liens are paid from the settlement, and negotiated first — EDD, child support, medical providers and Medicare can each have a claim on it. Provider liens are often resolved for a fraction of face value.
- A judge has to approve it — No settlement is valid until the Appeals Board approves it, and the judge must find it adequate, not merely signed.
How to read any firm’s results page, this one included
Six things to ask of any number, ours first. This page cannot yet answer the first three for its own figures, and says so above.
- What year was it? The law changes. A 2014 result came out of a materially different rating and treatment framework than a 2026 one.
- What was in dispute? A denial fought to a finding of compensability, an apportionment attack and a rating dispute are different kinds of work.
- Did it close future medical care? A Compromise and Release and a Stipulated Award of the same dollar value are not the same result.
- Is it before or after the fee and the liens? A figure on a page is not a check in a client’s hand.
- Who did the work, and who will do mine? A result says what a firm obtained, not who at the firm will be on your file. Ask for names.
- Does it say the result depended on its facts? California requires an electronic advertisement that portrays a result to say so, or to explain the facts and the law behind it.
Sources and verification
Attorney names are confirmed against the State Bar of California licensee records. The State Bar’s profile pages load their details as they open, so admission dates, current status and discipline history are stated here as the firm confirmed them on August 23, 2026 — not as we read them off the State Bar’s page. The links below go straight to each licensee record, so anyone can check them.
The five figures above are the firm’s own, from its published results page, retrieved August 23, 2026, and are reproduced as the firm states them. This page has not checked them against the underlying awards, orders or settlement documents. Each is being confirmed against the file it came from — State Bar advertising rules require every number on a results page to be traceable to an actual award, order or settlement — and the year, the settlement structure and what was in dispute will come from those same files.
Frequently asked questions
Can you tell me what my case is worth on the phone?
Not from the injury alone, and nobody honestly can. What a first call can do is look at the parts — the rating, future medical care, what has been paid and what has not — and tell you which of them is worth a closer look. It is free, takes about fifteen minutes, and you sign nothing until we recommend it.
Does a big number here mean my case is worth something similar?
No. Every case is decided on its own facts and law, and the § 6158.3 disclosure on this page says so in the words the state requires.
My claim is small. Is it worth calling?
Yes. A worker with a $40,000 rating being offered $12,000, or whose future medical was about to be closed for a few thousand dollars, got real help — and that is the case most people reading this page actually have.
Why do you not list the year of each result?
Because we do not yet have it stated against the file, and we would rather say that than imply a recency the page cannot support. The year, what was in dispute, and the settlement structure are all coming from the underlying files.
Are these gross recoveries or net to the client?
They are the recoveries as the firm published them. The attorney fee in workers’ compensation is set by a judge — generally 9% to 15% — and comes out of the recovery.
Do I pay anything if there is no recovery?
No. There is no fee unless we recover, and you are not responsible for costs we advance if there is no recovery.
Why does the settlement structure matter so much?
Because a Compromise and Release and a Stipulated Award of the same dollar value are not the same result. One closes future medical care. The other leaves it open.
Sources
Business and Professions Code § 6158.3Labor Code §§ 4903, 4906§ 4453(b)(9) (the weekly rates since 2014)§ 4658(d) (weeks per point)§ 4659(a) (the life pension)§ 4658.7 and 8 CCR § 17308 (the voucher and the supplement)§ 5001 (no settlement valid until approved)8 CCR § 10775WCAB Policy and Procedural Manual § 1.140State Bar of California licensee records for both attorneysFigures retrieved from the firm’s published results page, August 23, 2026.
General information about California law, not legal advice about your case.
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Law Offices of Solov & Teitell, APC · (213) 380-9310
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