Santa Clarita Personal Injury Lawyer
Looking for a personal injury lawyer in Santa Clarita? Broukhim Legal PC represents people hurt in Santa Clarita in personal injury and mass tort cases. Attorney Bejan Broukhim brings years of California injury experience and personally reviews your case. Your first conversation is free, confidential and carries no obligation.
Personal injury cases we take on in Santa Clarita.
These are the personal injury cases Broukhim Legal PC handles for people hurt in Santa Clarita, from car and motorcycle accidents to slip and falls, dog bites and wrongful death:
Car accidents in Santa Clarita
Pedestrian accidents in Santa Clarita
Bicycle accidents in Santa Clarita
Motorcycle accidents in Santa Clarita
Truck accidents
Uber and Lyft collisions
Bus and transit injuries
Hit and run
Drunk driving victims
Uninsured and underinsured drivers
Slip and fall
Premises liability
Negligent security
Dog bites
Construction accidents
Brain injury
Spinal cord injury
Burn injuries
Amputation
Catastrophic injury
Drowning
Defective products
Wrongful death
The first conversation is free and carries no obligation. The scope of the work and the fees are agreed with you in writing before any work starts, and the matter is planned from day one as though it will go to trial. If what happened to you is not on that list, it is still worth asking.
Mass tort cases for Santa Clarita residents
Alongside injury work, Broukhim Legal PC takes on mass tort claims for people living in and around Santa Clarita. These cases are consolidated in federal or state court rather than heard locally, so where you live does not limit them.
Social media harm
Video game addiction
Ozempic and GLP-1
Depo-Provera
Suboxone tooth decay
Talcum powder
Roundup
Paraquat
AFFF firefighting foam
Hair relaxer
NEC baby formula
Hernia mesh
Bard PowerPort
Paragard IUD
Defective medical devices
Where is a Santa Clarita injury case filed, and what are the deadlines?
Under Los Angeles Superior Court Local Rule 2.3(a)(1)(A), an unlimited civil action for bodily injury or wrongful death is filed in the judicial district where the incident arose, and the Court’s own filing locator places Santa Clarita addresses in the North Valley District at the Chatsworth Courthouse, 9425 Penfield Avenue. The Santa Clarita Courthouse handles criminal and traffic matters and takes no civil filings at all, so a Santa Clarita injury case is heard outside the valley. The deadline is generally two years from the date of injury under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1, and six months to present a written claim where a public entity is involved under Government Code section 911.2, in which case the shorter deadline governs. Santa Clarita publishes no claims page and no claim form, so a claim against the City goes in writing to the City Clerk at City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Suite 300, with Risk Management on (661) 286-4148 as the City’s own claims contact, and the current form and accepted filing methods should be confirmed with that office.
Looking for a top-rated, trusted personal injury lawyer in Santa Clarita?
Here is what you get when you choose Broukhim Legal PC.
- Direct access to your lawyer. Bejan Broukhim personally reviews your case and leads its strategy. You can speak directly with him about your case, and if another law firm is ever brought in, that happens only with your written consent.
- Years of experience, fully licensed. Bejan Broukhim brings years of experience in California personal injury and mass tort law and holds an active California law license, State Bar number 183036.
- Local knowledge of Santa Clarita. We know how a Santa Clarita claim works: which agency’s report it starts from, which Los Angeles Superior Court district hears it, and the six month deadline that applies when a public agency is involved. That means the early steps that protect your claim start on day one.
- No fee unless we recover for you. You pay nothing up front. Your case is taken on a contingency fee, so the fee comes out of what is recovered, and if nothing is recovered you owe no fee. The written agreement, signed before any work starts, also explains how case costs are handled.
- Ready for court. Every case is prepared from day one as though it will go to trial, so any settlement offer is measured against a case that is ready to be tried.
Your first conversation is free, confidential and carries no obligation. Tell us what happened in Santa Clarita and find out where you stand.
Meet your Santa Clarita personal injury lawyer
Bejan Broukhim, Founder and Lead Attorney
State Bar of California, license number 183036
Bejan Broukhim brings years of California legal experience to injury and mass tort cases and personally reviews each one. He earned his J.D. at the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, served as a judicial extern in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and the Van Nuys Superior Court, and appeared in preliminary hearings as a certified law clerk with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Every case is prepared from day one as though it will go to trial.
Office: 550 S Hill Street, Suite 1390, Los Angeles, CA 90013, serving Santa Clarita and all of Los Angeles County. Get directions
What a Santa Clarita claim tends to turn on
- Sheriff's reports, not city police: Requests go to the Santa Clarita Valley Station Traffic Bureau on (661) 260-4000, or to the Records and Identification Bureau in Norwalk by appointment.
- A courthouse outside the valley: North Valley District, Chatsworth Courthouse. Plan travel for hearings, and for witnesses who will have to make the same trip.
- No published City claim form: The six-month deadline under Government Code section 911.2 still runs. A written claim to the City Clerk, kept and proved, does the work the form would have done.
- Transit claims have two targets: Santa Clarita Transit is a City service run day to day by a contract operator, MV Transportation, so a bus injury can involve a public entity and a private company at once.
- Metrolink is a separate agency: The Antelope Valley Line is operated by the Southern California Regional Rail Authority, a public body of its own, not by the City or by Metro.
- Henry Mayo is the valley's trauma center: Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital holds a Level II adult trauma designation and is the only designated trauma center in the Santa Clarita Valley.
- Children are usually taken elsewhere: Henry Mayo carries no pediatric trauma designation, so a seriously injured child is likely to be transported out of the valley, which affects records, billing and liens.
Our process.
Consultation
A confidential first conversation. We review the facts, tell you where you stand, and set out the realistic options.
Strategy
Scope and fees agreed in writing, then a plan built from day one as if the matter will go to trial.
Resolution
We negotiate from a position of strength, and litigate aggressively when that is what your interests require.
Tell us what happened in Santa Clarita.
Takes 30 seconds. Confidential, and no obligation.
Confidential. No obligation. Submitting does not create an attorney-client relationship. By submitting, you agree that Broukhim Legal PC may contact you about your inquiry by phone, text or email. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out of texts. Consent is not a condition of hiring the firm.
Santa Clarita questions, answered plainly.
The short answer is that it depends on three things: whether someone else’s carelessness caused the injury, what the medical record actually shows, and whether there is insurance that reaches the loss. Those are the questions the first conversation is for. It is free, it takes about half an hour, and if there is nothing worth pursuing you will be told that rather than signed up. Bring whatever you have: the collision or incident report if one exists, photographs, the name of anyone who treated you, and your own insurance policy. In Santa Clarita the report is a Sheriff’s record on a CHP 555 form rather than a city police one, so the file number from the scene is worth keeping.
The first conversation costs nothing and creates no obligation. A Santa Clarita injury case is taken on a contingency fee, so there is nothing to pay up front and the fee is paid out of what is recovered. If there is no recovery, no fee is owed. The fee agreement is put in writing and signed before any work starts, which is what California law requires, and the costs of running the case are explained in that same agreement rather than left to the end. Ask about it on the first call.
The North Valley District, at the Chatsworth Courthouse, 9425 Penfield Avenue. Local Rule 2.3(a)(1)(A) requires an unlimited civil injury or wrongful death case to be filed in the judicial district where the incident arose, and the Court’s filing locator returns Chatsworth for Santa Clarita addresses. The Santa Clarita Courthouse itself takes criminal and traffic matters only and has no civil division, which surprises most people. Mailing addresses are not always a reliable guide to municipal boundaries, so for a collision near a city edge the specific street address should be run rather than the city name.
In writing, within six months of the injury, under Government Code section 911.2. Santa Clarita is unusual in publishing no claims page and no claim form, so there is no portal to fill in and no template to follow. A written claim presented to the City Clerk at City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Suite 300, is the route, and the City’s Risk Management line is (661) 286-4148. Because nothing is standardised, keep proof of what was sent and when. Six months is short, and a late claim can end an otherwise strong case.
Possibly both the City and a private company. Santa Clarita Transit is a City of Santa Clarita service: the City took over local transit from the County in 1991 and supervises a contract operator that handles operations and maintenance. As of the City’s May 2023 Title VI update that operator is MV Transportation. So a bus injury can involve a government claim against the City, with its six-month deadline, alongside an ordinary claim against the contractor. Getting that pair identified early matters, because the shorter deadline governs.
By the state’s own comparative measure, mostly no, and it would be misleading to say otherwise. In the California Office of Traffic Safety rankings for 2023, where rank 1 is the worst in the group, Santa Clarita placed 52nd of 62 cities its size for total fatal and injury crashes, meaning better than most, and 62nd of 62 for pedestrians aged 65 and over, the best in its group. Those rankings are rate-based, adjusted for population and daily vehicle miles travelled, so they measure comparative risk rather than raw counts. The city also publishes no local road safety plan or high injury network, so there is no official list of worst corridors to point to.
General information about California law, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by reading it. Deadlines and outcomes turn on the facts of your own matter, so have yours reviewed. By submitting, you agree that Broukhim Legal PC may contact you about your inquiry by phone, text or email. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out of texts. Consent is not a condition of hiring the firm.
Talk to Bejan Broukhim.
Protect your future with years of California legal experience on your side.
Broukhim Legal PC. Personal injury and mass tort litigation, led by Bejan Broukhim from downtown Los Angeles.
Our Firm
Bejan Broukhim
FAQ
Insights
Contact
Broukhim Legal PC
550 S Hill Street, Suite 1390
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM PT
Attorney advertising. This website is an advertisement by Broukhim Legal PC, 550 S Hill Street, Suite 1390, Los Angeles, CA 90013. The attorney responsible for its content is Bejan Broukhim, State Bar of California license number 183036, licensed in California. The information on this website is general information, not legal advice, and is no substitute for advice about your own situation. Contacting the firm or submitting a form does not create an attorney-client relationship, so please do not send confidential information until the firm has agreed in writing to represent you. Every case is different, and no particular result is promised or implied. Contingency fees and costs: no attorney fee is charged unless there is a recovery. Case costs, such as filing fees, records and expert witness fees, are separate from the fee, and whether you would be responsible for them if there is no recovery is set out in the written fee agreement you review before signing. With your written consent, the firm may associate with or refer your matter to another law firm; any division of fees is disclosed to you in writing and does not increase the total fee. Images on this website are illustrative and, other than Bejan Broukhim, do not depict clients or lawyers of the firm. If a medication or medical device is mentioned on this website, do not stop taking it or have it removed without first talking to your doctor.
© 2026 Broukhim Legal PC. All rights reserved. · Privacy Policy · Disclaimer
Tell us about your matter.
A short, confidential review. We will tell you plainly whether there is something worth pursuing.
Confidential. No obligation. Submitting does not create an attorney–client relationship.