UCLA-Trained Attorneys in Tarzana
Commercial trucks carry electronic logging devices and event data recorders that capture speed, braking, and hours of service in the moments before a crash. That data is the most important evidence in your case. And it can be overwritten in as little as 30 days if no one sends a preservation demand to the carrier. The trucking company knows this. Their lawyers know this. The question is whether you have a lawyer who knows it too.
Arya Firoozmand handles truck accident cases in Tarzana and sends litigation holds within 24 hours of taking a case. He files at Van Nuys Courthouse West and understands the FMCSA regulations that govern driver hours, vehicle maintenance, and cargo securement. If a commercial truck injured you in Tarzana, the clock is already running on the evidence that will make or break your claim.
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 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sets strict rules for driver hours, vehicle maintenance, and load limits. Violations of these regulations — speeding, HOS violations, improper cargo — are powerful evidence of negligence.
Liability can span the driver, the carrier, the cargo shipper, the truck manufacturer, and maintenance contractors. Identifying and pursuing all defendants maximizes your recovery and prevents pointing fingers.
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
When a 40-ton truck hits a passenger car, the injuries are severe. Your compensation should account for every consequence of that crash, present and future.
Medical Expenses
Providence Tarzana is often where truck crash victims are taken first. From there, the bills stack up: surgery, specialists, rehab, medications.
Lost Wages & Earning Capacity
Recovery from a truck crash is measured in months, sometimes years. We recover every dollar of income lost, plus projected future losses.
Pain & Suffering
Truck crash survivors often suffer PTSD, chronic pain, and anxiety that goes far beyond the physical injuries. California law compensates all of it.
Property Damage
A passenger car hit by a semi on Ventura Blvd or the 101 is almost always a total loss. We pursue full replacement value.
Permanent Disability
Crushed vertebrae, severed nerves, and traumatic brain injuries from truck crashes can leave you permanently disabled. We fight for lifetime support.
Punitive Damages
FMCSA hours-of-service violations and falsified driver logs are common in truck cases. When we find them, punitive damages become available.
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818-224-7940What to Do After a Truck Accident
Trucking company investigators respond within hours. Your ability to preserve critical evidence depends on having legal representation in place early.
Call 911 immediately
Get CHP or LAPD on scene. Truck crashes require detailed documentation of the commercial vehicle, its cargo, and road conditions.
Photograph everything
Capture the truck's DOT number, company markings, plate number, cargo condition, and all damage to your vehicle. Do this before the truck gets towed.
Do not speak with the carrier's investigator
The trucking company's team will show up fast. They're gathering evidence for their defense. Don't help them. Stay silent.
Seek immediate medical care
Providence Tarzana Medical Center can handle trauma evaluations. Even if you walked away from the crash, get a full workup that day.
Contact Westwood Law immediately
Arya Firoozmand demands preservation of black box data and driver logs before the carrier's 30-day overwrite cycle erases the evidence.