UCLA-Trained Attorneys in Tarzana
When an insurance adjuster calls you within 48 hours of your Tarzana car accident, they are not being helpful. They are trying to lock you into a settlement before you know the full extent of your injuries. Before the MRI results come back. Before you realize you cannot work next week. That early offer is designed to save them money, not to take care of you.
Arya Firoozmand handles car accident cases across Tarzana personally. He files at Van Nuys Courthouse West, knows the local judges, and understands how West Valley juries respond to injury claims. If your crash happened on Ventura Boulevard, near Providence Tarzana Medical Center, or on the 101, the first thing we do is preserve the evidence that the insurance company hopes you never collect.
Grew Up Minutes Away and Knows Tarzana Firsthand
I grew up in Woodland Hills, attended El Camino Real High School, and earned my law degree at UCLA. I've spent my career representing injured residents in Tarzana and the surrounding Valley communities. I know this area well, from grabbing breakfast at Bea's Bakery to dinners with my wife at Sol Y Luna on Ventura and Winnetka, to spending evenings at Corbin Bowl. I handle every personal injury case from this part of the Valley personally, not a paralegal, not a junior associate.
What We Already Know When You Call
The high-risk corridors, the trauma hospitals, the filing deadlines, and the legal rules that apply to your case. This is the baseline knowledge we bring to every Tarzana injury claim.
Ventura Boulevard through Tarzana is one of the busiest surface streets in the San Fernando Valley. Combined with US-101 on-ramp congestion, this corridor sees consistent patterns of rear-end, pedestrian, and side-impact crashes.
Paramedics route to Northridge Hospital (Level II Trauma). Providence Tarzana Medical Center is right here on Burbank Boulevard but is not a trauma center. Critical cases go to UCLA Ronald Reagan (Level I).
The driver who caused the accident is responsible for your damages. But insurers routinely fight liability and minimize payouts — especially when there is no attorney pushing back.
California Code of Civil Procedure §335.1 gives you 2 years from the accident date to file a lawsuit. If a government vehicle was involved, you may have as little as 6 months. Evidence disappears quickly — act now.
What Shapes an Injury Case Here
The Reseda Boulevard medical corridor is one of the most concentrated clusters of treatment centers and specialist practices in the Valley. Providence Tarzana Medical Center sits on Burbank Boulevard. This is where many Valley injury victims end up for treatment whether or not they live here. The practical advantage: we already know the providers who are documenting your injuries, and we know which ones write reports that stand up when the insurance company's lawyer picks them apart.
Tarzana has one of the densest apartment corridors in the mid-Valley, especially along Vanowen and Oxnard. That means landlord and property management defendants are common. Slip and fall on a broken stairwell, assault in a poorly lit parking garage, trip on a cracked walkway: these are all premises cases against management companies, and management companies fight differently than individual homeowners.
The US-101/Reseda Boulevard interchange is a multi-vehicle crash corridor. When several cars are involved, there are multiple insurance policies in play and you need someone who will find all of them, not just the obvious one.
Cases here go to Chatsworth or Van Nuys Courthouse depending on the specifics. Both are courthouses we work in regularly.
The Accidents That Keep Happening
Ventura Boulevard through Tarzana never lets up. It is one of the busiest surface streets in the Valley, and the stretch near Reseda Boulevard combines heavy pedestrian traffic with drivers trying to get to the 101 on-ramp. The result is a mix of rear-end crashes, T-bones at intersections, and pedestrians getting hit in crosswalks.
Reseda Boulevard has the freeway interchange collisions and the medical district traffic. Vanowen and Oxnard run through the apartment belt and see lower-speed crashes that still cause real injuries: a car backing out of a driveway, a kid on a bike getting doored, a delivery truck blocking sight lines at an intersection.
One of our Tarzana cases involved a pedestrian hit in front of a restaurant on Ventura whose owner had removed bollards from the sidewalk patio. Another was a rear-end chain reaction on the 101 on-ramp at Reseda where three different insurance companies tried to blame each other. These cases required different evidence, different experts, and different strategies from day one.
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Compensation Available in Your Case
The adjuster will tell you they are making a fair offer. They are not. Here is what California law actually allows you to recover.
Medical Expenses
Providence Tarzana Medical Center bills, specialist referrals, physical therapy, and prescriptions. Every dollar gets documented.
Lost Wages
Your paycheck doesn't stop mattering because you got hurt. We recover wages lost during treatment and any reduction in what you can earn going forward.
Pain & Suffering
Sleepless nights, anxiety behind the wheel, pain that won't quit. Insurance companies lowball this category more than any other.
Property Damage
Vehicle repair or total loss value, plus personal items inside the car at the time of the crash.
Future Medical Costs
Back injuries from Ventura Blvd rear-end collisions often need ongoing care. We bring in medical experts to project your future costs.
Punitive Damages
Drunk driving crashes on Ventura Blvd or the 101 can open the door to punitive damages beyond your actual losses.
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818-224-7940What to Do After a Car Accident
Your actions in the hours after a collision directly affect your ability to recover compensation.
Call 911
Get a police report filed. Whether it's LAPD or CHP depends on the road, but either report is essential evidence.
Seek medical attention immediately
Providence Tarzana Medical Center is right here. Don't wait until tomorrow. A same-day medical record ties your injuries directly to the crash.
Document the scene
Use your phone to photograph damage, the intersection, traffic lights, and any visible injuries. Every detail helps.
Do not admit fault
Even a casual apology gets used against you by the adjuster. Keep your statements to the facts: what happened, where, when.
Decline recorded statements
Insurance adjusters are trained to get you to say things that hurt your case. Tell them you'll provide a statement through your attorney.
Contact Westwood Law
Arya Firoozmand handles Tarzana cases at Van Nuys Courthouse. The sooner we're involved, the stronger your case.