Brentwood (Los Angeles) Personal Injury Lawyer

Brentwood Injury Cases We Handle

Brentwood Personal Injury at a Glance

• Core corridors: I-405 San Diego Freeway running north-south through the Sepulveda Pass with on/off ramps at Sunset Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica Boulevard, and Moraga Drive in the Brentwood band, Sunset Boulevard as the principal east-west arterial across the north of the neighborhood, San Vicente Boulevard as the central east-west arterial, Wilshire Boulevard along the southern edge, plus Barrington Avenue, Bundy Drive, and Skirball Center Drive.
• Court venue: Brentwood Los Angeles civil and criminal matters route to the Stanley Mosk Courthouse at 111 N. Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles (LASC Central District); unlimited civil personal injury cases (any case seeking more than $35,000 under Code of Civil Procedure section 85) are filed in the district where the collision occurred and assigned for all purposes to an Independent Calendar department; the Spring Street Personal Injury Hub stopped receiving new personal injury filings on January 8, 2024.
• Law enforcement: Brentwood is part of the City of Los Angeles and is served by the Los Angeles Police Department – the LAPD West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue investigates city-street collisions on Sunset Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, Barrington Avenue, Bundy Drive, and the other Brentwood arterials, while the California Highway Patrol West Los Angeles Area investigates collisions on the I-405.
• Demographics: Brentwood is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles with approximately 30,000 residents across roughly 14 square miles, anchored by UCLA on the eastern edge, the Skirball Cultural Center near the I-405 / Sunset Boulevard interchange, and the San Vicente Boulevard / Barrington Avenue commercial core; intake is conducted in English and Spanish-language interpreter support is available throughout the case.
• Notable case pattern: The June 23, 2025 fatal multi-vehicle collision on the I-405 near the Sunset Boulevard exit at approximately 2:10 a.m. (an off-duty LAPD sergeant and another person were killed, per FOX 11 Los Angeles reporting) and the September 16, 2025 fatal pedestrian collision on the Sepulveda Boulevard off-ramp near Skirball Center Drive (84-year-old Marlene Haberman struck and killed, per CBS News and NBC Los Angeles reporting) illustrate the catastrophic-injury risk on the I-405 at the Sunset Boulevard and Skirball/Sepulveda interchanges.

Yaghmai Law Firm represents individuals and families injured in Brentwood, Los Angeles – the Westside neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles bordered by Bel Air to the north, Westwood and UCLA to the east, Sawtelle and the Wilshire / Bundy corridor to the south, and Pacific Palisades and the I-405 / Sunset Boulevard interchange to the west. This page is about Brentwood, Los Angeles – the West Los Angeles 90049 / 90272 ZIP-code neighborhood anchored by Sunset Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, and the I-405 at Sunset interchange – not the unrelated city of Brentwood, California in Contra Costa County. Brentwood’s geography is dominated by the I-405 San Diego Freeway running north-south through the Sepulveda Pass on the western edge, Sunset Boulevard winding east-west across the top of the neighborhood, San Vicente Boulevard cutting across the middle, and Wilshire Boulevard at the southern edge near Bundy Drive. The June 23, 2025 fatal I-405 multi-vehicle collision near the Sunset Boulevard exit (per FOX 11 Los Angeles reporting) and the September 16, 2025 fatal pedestrian collision on the Sepulveda off-ramp near Skirball Center Drive (per CBS News and NBC Los Angeles reporting) are both representative of the corridors we see most frequently. Houtan Yaghmai, Esq., President and Managing Attorney, handles every Brentwood file personally – from initial scene reconstruction (LAPD West LA Division for city streets, CHP West Los Angeles Area for the I-405) through demand, mediation, and trial preparation.

Brentwood is part of the City of Los Angeles, which means the investigating agency for city-street collisions is the Los Angeles Police Department, specifically the LAPD West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue. LAPD West LA Division files traffic collision reports through the LAPD records system; we request them by district report number and incident date and can usually get a Brentwood city-street collision report within 7 to 14 business days from request. For I-405 freeway collisions in the Brentwood band (Sepulveda Pass, Sunset Boulevard exit, Skirball Center Drive off-ramp, Wilshire Boulevard exit, Santa Monica Boulevard exit), the investigating agency is the California Highway Patrol West Los Angeles Area, which is geographically the closest CHP area office. We file the CHP report request immediately so the basic collision report is in hand within roughly 10 business days, with the Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team supplemental report (on catastrophic crashes like the June 23, 2025 I-405 at Sunset fatal multi-vehicle collision and the September 16, 2025 Skirball off-ramp pedestrian fatality) tracked separately because it can take six to twelve months to release.

We are a Sherman Oaks-based firm and we have built our Brentwood practice around a remote-first intake model that does not require Brentwood clients to drive across the Sepulveda Pass to our office. Initial consultations are by phone, text, secure video, or e-signed documents; medical record requests, LAPD West LA report retrieval, and CHP collision report ordering are all handled by our team in-house. When a Brentwood file goes to litigation we appear at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse (111 N. Hill Street, downtown Los Angeles) on limited civil motions and at the courthouse for the district where the case is filed for unlimited civil personal injury matters.

Recent CHP-Reported Incidents in Brentwood (Los Angeles)

The list below is pulled from California Highway Patrol public incident data for Brentwood (Los Angeles) and updated automatically as new reports come in.

Types of Brentwood Personal Injury Cases We Handle

The Brentwood files Yaghmai Law Firm sees fall into six recurring patterns. Each pattern has its own evidence-collection rhythm, its own defendant set, and its own typical valuation arc – so when we open a Brentwood intake we are already routing the file toward one of these tracks within the first 48 hours.

• I-405 at Sunset Boulevard interchange crashes. The I-405 at Sunset Boulevard interchange in the Sepulveda Pass is the highest-incidence catastrophic-crash node we see in Brentwood. The June 23, 2025 fatal multi-vehicle collision on the I-405 near the Sunset Boulevard exit at approximately 2:10 a.m. (an off-duty LAPD sergeant and another person were killed, per FOX 11 Los Angeles reporting) is representative of the corridor’s catastrophic-injury profile during overnight hours. CHP West Los Angeles Area investigates I-405 collisions through the Brentwood band. We pull CAD logs, MAIT supplemental reports when available, EDR data from involved vehicles, and Caltrans freeway-management camera footage within 48 hours on every catastrophic I-405 Brentwood file.
• I-405 at Skirball Center Drive and Sepulveda Boulevard off-ramp crashes. The I-405 off-ramps at Skirball Center Drive, Moraga Drive, and Sepulveda Boulevard generate a distinct stream of pedestrian and vehicle-on-vehicle crashes separate from the Sunset interchange. The September 16, 2025 fatal pedestrian collision on the Sepulveda Boulevard off-ramp near Skirball Center Drive (84-year-old Marlene Haberman struck and killed, per CBS News and NBC Los Angeles reporting) is illustrative of the pedestrian-strike risk on these off-ramps where speed-differential conflicts between exiting freeway traffic and arterial pedestrian crossings concentrate. CHP investigates the ramp itself; LAPD West LA Division investigates the arterial side. We pull both CHP and LAPD reports plus Caltrans ramp-camera and Skirball-area private-business camera footage within 48 hours.
• Sunset Boulevard arterial crashes through Brentwood. Sunset Boulevard is the principal east-west arterial running across the north of Brentwood, with its winding two-and-three-lane geometry between Barrington Avenue and the I-405 making it one of the more accident-prone Westside arterials. Sunset’s curves, blind-summit visibility, and motorcycle traffic combine with high-speed nighttime driving to produce a recurring stream of single-vehicle fixed-object crashes, head-on collisions, and motorcycle losses. LAPD West LA Division investigates Sunset Boulevard collisions; we pull traffic collision reports, City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering road-design records on curve geometry and signage, and any private-business or residential security camera footage within 48 hours.
• San Vicente Boulevard arterial crashes. San Vicente Boulevard is the central east-west arterial cutting through Brentwood from Bundy Drive east through the commercial core at Barrington Avenue and continuing to 26th Street and the boundary with Santa Monica. The corridor combines a wide tree-lined median (a former rail right-of-way now used by joggers and pedestrians), heavy daytime retail traffic in the Brentwood Village core, and weekend / Sunday-farmers-market crowds. The dominant liability theories are pedestrian strikes at the signalized crosswalks at San Vicente and Barrington, San Vicente and Bundy, and San Vicente and 26th Street; left-turn-into-oncoming collisions under permissive left-turn phasing; and median-crossing pedestrian and cyclist injuries. LAPD West LA Division investigates; we pull traffic collision reports and City of Los Angeles signal-timing records on every San Vicente case.
• Wilshire Boulevard at Bundy Drive crashes. The Wilshire Boulevard and Bundy Drive intersection at the southern edge of Brentwood is one of the busiest signalized intersections in West Los Angeles, with the Bundy Drive corridor feeding traffic between the I-10 Santa Monica Freeway to the south and Sunset Boulevard to the north, and Wilshire Boulevard running across as the principal commuter spine to Santa Monica. Recurring crash patterns: rear-end collisions at signal cycle-end queues, left-turn-into-oncoming broadside crashes, and pedestrian strikes at the signalized crosswalks. LAPD West LA Division investigates; we pull traffic collision reports, City of Los Angeles signal-timing records, and any nearby private-business camera footage within 48 hours.
• Rideshare, delivery, and uninsured motorist Brentwood cases. Brentwood sits between LAX, the Westside hospital-and-research cluster anchored by UCLA, and the Sepulveda Pass / Hollywood corridor, which makes it a significant rideshare and last-mile delivery corridor. Uber and Lyft drivers running LAX pickups, UCLA Medical Center transfers, and event-venue runs generate a steady stream of intake files, as do Amazon, FedEx, and UPS delivery operations along the Brentwood residential streets and the San Vicente and Wilshire commercial corridors. Rideshare crashes in Period 2 (en route to passenger) or Period 3 (passenger on board) trigger a one-million-dollar per-incident commercial liability layer under California Public Utilities Code 5440-5444; delivery-vehicle crashes trigger FMCSA spoliation if the vehicle is over 10,001 pounds gross vehicle weight rating. For uninsured-driver Brentwood crashes, we pull the client’s auto policy declarations page on every intake to confirm UM/UIM coverage limits under Insurance Code 11580.2 and stacking eligibility. We also routinely encounter umbrella-policy excess coverage on the high-net-worth Brentwood resident driver pool, often stacked on top of underlying personal-auto and homeowner policies; pulling the umbrella declarations early is a recurring source of recovery that less-experienced firms miss because the underlying carrier doesn’t volunteer the umbrella in initial disclosures.
• UCLA-adjacent and Westside medical-and-research-center transfer crashes. Brentwood’s eastern edge runs into UCLA and the UCLA Medical Center campus, which produces a distinct stream of medical-transport and patient-transfer vehicle crashes along the Sunset Boulevard corridor between Bundy Drive and UCLA. The patient-transport and inter-facility transfer vehicles (including the patient-transport vans for the UCLA medical complex, the Reagan UCLA Medical Center ambulance fleet, and the contracted non-emergency medical transport (NEMT) operators) operate under California Code of Regulations Title 22 standards for medical transport and California Public Utilities Commission TCP (Transportation Charter Party) regulations for non-emergency contracted carriers. NEMT crashes trigger a distinct discovery posture including driver licensure, vehicle inspection, dispatch logs, and any contracted-fleet maintenance records. We pull the operator’s TCP filing, fleet roster, and any post-crash regulatory reporting to the CPUC within 72 hours.

Why Brentwood Cases Need a Personal Injury Attorney

Brentwood personal injury cases are not a fungible commodity. The defendants, the insurance carriers, the investigating agencies, and the discoverable evidence layer all change depending on where in Brentwood the crash happened and what type of vehicle was involved.

On the I-405 in the Brentwood band the investigating agency is the California Highway Patrol West Los Angeles Area. CHP collision reports run a different format and timeline than LAPD reports – the basic collision report is usually available within 10 business days, but the Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team (MAIT) supplemental report on catastrophic crashes (like the June 23, 2025 I-405 at Sunset multi-vehicle fatality or the September 16, 2025 Skirball off-ramp pedestrian fatality) can take six to twelve months and often is not released until after litigation has begun. We track CHP report release dates internally and refile public records requests if the initial release is incomplete.

On the city streets – Sunset Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, Barrington Avenue, Bundy Drive, Bristol Avenue, Saltair Avenue, Cliffwood Avenue, 26th Street, and the other Brentwood arterials – the investigating agency is the Los Angeles Police Department West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue. LAPD West LA Division files traffic collision reports through the LAPD records system. We work directly with the LAPD West LA records desk on report retrieval and can usually get a Brentwood city-street collision report within 7 to 14 business days from request, and we cross-reference the report number against the City of Los Angeles Public Records Act response if signal-timing or traffic-engineering records are also needed.

Insurance carrier mix in Brentwood skews heavily toward State Farm, USAA, Mercury, Geico, AAA, Allstate, and Farmers for personal-line auto policies, with a notable share of Chubb, AIG Private Client, and PURE on the high-net-worth submarket common in Brentwood’s residential blocks north of Sunset. On commercial lines we routinely encounter Travelers, Sentry, Liberty Mutual, Hartford, and Great American on the production-vehicle and high-end retail fleets, plus Progressive Commercial on smaller last-mile delivery operators. Each carrier has its own claims-handling rhythm and its own evaluation algorithm; the Brentwood file that gets settled is the one where the demand package is structured to that specific carrier’s template, with claim values supported by the medical records and economic analysis the carrier’s reserve committee expects to see.

Compensation in Brentwood Personal Injury Cases

Brentwood personal injury verdicts and settlements follow Los Angeles County personal injury valuation norms but with two Brentwood-specific adjustments worth flagging.

Venue valuation. Unlimited civil personal injury cases (any case worth more than $35,000 under Code of Civil Procedure section 85) are filed in the district where the injury occurred and assigned for all purposes to an Independent Calendar department that manages the case from filing through trial. Brentwood limited civil and criminal matters also route to Stanley Mosk Courthouse (111 N. Hill Street, downtown Los Angeles) as part of the LASC Central District.

Wage-loss and earning-capacity arithmetic for Brentwood’s professional workforce. Brentwood has one of the highest household-income demographics in West Los Angeles, with a workforce concentrated in entertainment, finance, law, medicine (anchored by UCLA Medical Center to the east), and technology. That means past-and-future lost earnings claims on a Brentwood file frequently turn on high-wage knowledge-worker, creative-professional, or independent-contractor positions where even moderate soft-tissue or orthopedic injuries can create meaningful wage loss and earning-capacity claims. We retain a vocational economist on every Brentwood case with a meaningful wage-loss component, and we document the client’s role, salary trajectory, equity compensation, and any contract or freelance work to support both economic and non-economic damage claims.

Recoverable damage categories in a Brentwood personal injury case track California Civil Jury Instructions (CACI) 3900-series: past and future medical expenses, past and future lost earnings (including loss of earning capacity), past and future pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, and – in wrongful death cases – loss of love, companionship, comfort, care, assistance, protection, affection, society, moral support, and (in survival actions) the decedent’s pre-death pain and suffering plus economic loss.

California Law That Applies to Brentwood Personal Injury Cases

The Brentwood personal injury file lives at the intersection of statewide California statutory law and case law. The core authorities we cite in nearly every Brentwood demand package and complaint:

Negligence per se. Most Brentwood vehicle-on-vehicle cases run a Vehicle Code violation as the predicate for negligence per se under Evidence Code 669. The most common Brentwood-applicable violations are CVC 22350 (basic speed law – particularly relevant on Sunset Boulevard’s curve geometry), CVC 23152 (driving under the influence), CVC 21703 (following too closely), CVC 21801 (left turn yield – especially relevant on San Vicente Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, and Bundy Drive permissive-left intersections), CVC 21453 (red light), CVC 21950 (yield to pedestrian in crosswalk – the predicate violation in the September 16, 2025 Skirball off-ramp pedestrian fatality and many other Brentwood pedestrian strikes), CVC 22107 (unsafe lane change), and on the I-405 commercial-vehicle traffic, CVC 34500-34520 (commercial vehicle standards) plus 49 C.F.R. Part 395 (hours-of-service) and Part 396 (vehicle maintenance).

Statute of limitations. Code of Civil Procedure 335.1 sets a two-year limitation for personal injury. Government Code 911.2 sets a six-month claim-presentation deadline if any public entity is potentially liable – for example, Caltrans for an I-405 roadway-design or off-ramp-design claim at the Sunset Boulevard or Skirball Center Drive interchanges, the City of Los Angeles itself for a signal-timing or sidewalk-defect claim on Sunset Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, or Wilshire Boulevard, or the LA Department of Transportation for a traffic-engineering claim. Missing the six-month government-claim deadline ordinarily extinguishes any claim against that public entity.

Comparative fault. California uses pure comparative negligence per Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804. Even a Brentwood plaintiff judged 90 percent at fault can still recover 10 percent of damages; insurance carrier early valuations frequently overstate plaintiff comparative fault and we challenge that allocation at every step.

Damage caps and apportionment. Civil Code 1431.2 (Proposition 51) apportions non-economic damages by fault among multiple defendants; economic damages remain jointly and severally liable. MICRA (Civil Code 3333.2, with the 2023 indexing) caps non-economic damages only in medical malpractice and does not apply to ordinary Brentwood motor-vehicle cases.

Local Driving Routes and Hazards in Brentwood

These are the recurring Brentwood corridors and intersections we screen for whenever we open a new file. If your crash happened on one of these, we already know the road geometry, the signal phasing, and the historical incident pattern – which compresses the investigation timeline by weeks.

• I-405 at Sunset Boulevard interchange (Sepulveda Pass). The I-405 at Sunset Boulevard interchange in the Sepulveda Pass is the recurring catastrophic-crash node we see in Brentwood. The June 23, 2025 fatal multi-vehicle collision on the I-405 near the Sunset Boulevard exit at approximately 2:10 a.m. (an off-duty LAPD sergeant and another person were killed, per FOX 11 Los Angeles reporting) is the most recent verified catastrophic incident at this exact location. CHP West Los Angeles Area investigates I-405 collisions in the Brentwood band. We pull CAD logs, MAIT supplemental reports when available, EDR data, and Caltrans freeway-management camera footage within 48 hours on every catastrophic I-405 Brentwood file.
• I-405 at Skirball Center Drive / Sepulveda Boulevard off-ramp. The I-405 off-ramps at Skirball Center Drive, Moraga Drive, and Sepulveda Boulevard generate a distinct stream of pedestrian and vehicle-on-vehicle crashes separate from the Sunset interchange. The September 16, 2025 fatal pedestrian collision on the Sepulveda Boulevard off-ramp near Skirball Center Drive (84-year-old Marlene Haberman struck and killed, per CBS News and NBC Los Angeles reporting) is the most recent verified pedestrian fatality on these ramps. CHP investigates the ramp itself; LAPD West LA Division investigates the arterial side. We pull both CHP and LAPD reports plus Caltrans ramp-camera and Skirball-area private-business camera footage within 48 hours.
• Sunset Boulevard winding east-west across north Brentwood. Sunset Boulevard is the principal east-west arterial across the north of Brentwood, with its winding two-and-three-lane geometry between Barrington Avenue and the I-405 making it one of the more accident-prone Westside arterials. The curves, blind-summit visibility on the Sepulveda-Pass approach, and motorcycle traffic combine with high-speed nighttime driving to produce a recurring stream of single-vehicle fixed-object crashes, head-on collisions, and motorcycle losses. LAPD West LA Division is the investigating agency on Sunset Boulevard within Brentwood; we pull traffic collision reports, City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering road-design records on curve geometry, and any residential security camera footage on every case.
• San Vicente Boulevard at Barrington Avenue (Brentwood Village). San Vicente Boulevard runs east-west through Brentwood Village at the Barrington Avenue commercial core, with its tree-lined median (former rail right-of-way now used by joggers) and heavy daytime retail and weekend farmers-market traffic. The dominant liability theories are pedestrian strikes at the signalized crosswalks at San Vicente and Barrington, San Vicente and Bundy, and San Vicente and 26th Street; left-turn-into-oncoming collisions under permissive left-turn phasing; and median-crossing pedestrian and cyclist injuries. LAPD West LA Division investigates; we pull traffic collision reports, City of Los Angeles signal-timing records, and nearby private-business camera footage within 48 hours.

Why Hire Yaghmai Law Firm for a Brentwood Personal Injury Case

Brentwood clients pick us for the same reason clients across the Westside pick us: small enough that the lead attorney handles the file directly, large enough that we have the medical, accident-reconstruction, and economic-expert relationships to take a case to verdict if the carrier refuses fair value. Houtan Yaghmai, Esq., does not delegate Brentwood files to junior associates or paralegal-driven document mills.

“What my Brentwood clients tell me they need most is the feeling that someone is on their side. I take that seriously, every case.”

— Houtan Yaghmai, Esq., President & Managing Attorney

We handle every Brentwood file remotely by default – phone, secure video, e-signature – so a Brentwood client recovering from an I-405, Sunset Boulevard, or San Vicente Boulevard crash does not have to drive across the Sepulveda Pass to our Sherman Oaks office to retain counsel. Intake is fast, the fee structure is contingency (we are paid only out of recovery), and Houtan personally signs every demand package that leaves the firm.

Brentwood (Los Angeles) Personal Injury Frequently Asked Questions

I see another ‘Brentwood’ in California – is this page about Brentwood near UCLA or Brentwood in Contra Costa County?

This page is about Brentwood, Los Angeles – the West Los Angeles neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles in ZIP codes 90049 and 90272, anchored by Sunset Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, the I-405 at the Sepulveda Pass, UCLA on the eastern edge, and the Skirball Cultural Center near the I-405 / Sunset interchange. It is not about the unrelated city of Brentwood, California in Contra Costa County in the East Bay. If you were injured in or near the East Bay Brentwood, you will want a Northern California personal injury firm; we practice in Greater Los Angeles.

Which courthouse hears my Brentwood personal injury case?

Brentwood Los Angeles civil and criminal matters route to the Stanley Mosk Courthouse at 111 N. Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles, which is the LASC Central District seat. Limited civil cases (under $35,000) and most criminal, family law, traffic, and probate matters for Brentwood residents are heard at Stanley Mosk. Unlimited civil personal injury cases (any case worth more than $35,000 under Code of Civil Procedure section 85) are filed in the district where the collision occurred and assigned for all purposes to an Independent Calendar department (Local Rule 2.3; Civil Case Cover Sheet Addendum, form CIV 109, reason 4). The Spring Street Personal Injury Hub stopped receiving new personal injury filings on January 8, 2024. Practically speaking, every Brentwood personal injury case with meaningful injury values is litigated in downtown Los Angeles.

My crash happened on the I-405 in Brentwood. Who investigates and how long does the report take?

California Highway Patrol West Los Angeles Area investigates freeway collisions on the I-405 in the Brentwood band, including the I-405 at Sunset Boulevard interchange where the June 23, 2025 multi-vehicle fatal occurred and the I-405 at Skirball / Sepulveda off-ramp where the September 16, 2025 pedestrian fatal occurred. CHP reports take longer than LAPD reports – the basic collision report is usually available within 10 business days, but the Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team (MAIT) supplemental report on catastrophic crashes can take six to twelve months. We file the initial report request immediately and track the MAIT release timeline. For a catastrophic I-405 crash we also send a Caltrans freeway-management camera preservation letter within 48 hours because Caltrans purges its rolling camera buffer on a short cycle.

Does the LASD or LAPD handle city-street collisions in Brentwood?

Brentwood is part of the City of Los Angeles, so city-street collisions are investigated by the Los Angeles Police Department, not the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The LAPD West Los Angeles Community Police Station at 1663 Butler Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90025 is the responding division for Brentwood and investigates collisions on Sunset Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard at Bundy Drive, Barrington Avenue, Bundy Drive, and the other Brentwood arterials within City of Los Angeles jurisdiction. Traffic collision reports are filed through the LAPD records system; we request them by district report number and incident date and can usually get a Brentwood report in 7 to 14 business days from request.

How long do I have to file a Brentwood personal injury claim?

For most Brentwood personal injury cases against a private party (driver, business, property owner), you have two years from the date of injury to file a lawsuit, under California Code of Civil Procedure 335.1. That said, if any public entity is potentially liable – Caltrans for an I-405 roadway-design or off-ramp-design claim at the Sunset Boulevard or Skirball Center Drive interchanges, the City of Los Angeles itself for a signal-timing or sidewalk-defect claim on any Brentwood arterial, or the Los Angeles Department of Transportation for a traffic-engineering claim – California Government Code 911.2 requires a written claim presented to the public entity within six months of the incident. Missing the six-month government-claim deadline ordinarily extinguishes any claim against that public entity, even though the two-year private-party deadline is still open.

Do I need to come to Sherman Oaks to retain Yaghmai Law Firm if I live in Brentwood?

No. We handle Brentwood intake remotely by default – phone or text for initial consultation, secure video for client meetings, e-signature for retainer agreements. We send a courier or pick up documents in person if a Brentwood client has physical paperwork (police reports already received, medical records, prior insurance correspondence) that cannot be scanned. Initial consultations cost nothing, our fees are contingency-only (we are paid out of recovery, not out of pocket), and a Brentwood client recovering from an I-405, Sunset Boulevard, San Vicente Boulevard, or Wilshire Boulevard crash does not have to drive across the Sepulveda Pass to our Sherman Oaks office to retain counsel.

Related Personal Injury Practice Areas in Brentwood

Brentwood files cross several distinct practice areas at Yaghmai Law Firm. If your case touches one of the categories below, follow the link for our detailed practice page.

• Brentwood Car Accident Lawyer
• Brentwood Pedestrian Accident Attorney
• Brentwood Motorcycle Accident Lawyer
• Brentwood Bicycle Accident Lawyer
• Brentwood Wrongful Death Lawyer
• Brentwood Uber and Lyft Rideshare Accident Lawyer

Reviewed by Houtan Yaghmai, Esq., President & Managing Attorney. Admitted to practice law in California (State Bar No. 298487). He represents personal injury and immigration clients statewide.

Last updated: August 4, 2026.