Downey Personal Injury Lawyer
Looking for a personal injury lawyer in Downey? Broukhim Legal PC represents people hurt in Downey 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 Downey.
These are the personal injury cases Broukhim Legal PC handles for people hurt in Downey, from car and motorcycle accidents to slip and falls, dog bites and wrongful death:
Car accidents in Downey
Pedestrian accidents in Downey
Bicycle accidents in Downey
Motorcycle accidents in Downey
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 Downey residents
Alongside injury work, Broukhim Legal PC takes on mass tort claims for people living in and around Downey. 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 Downey 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 returns Norwalk for Downey addresses. Downey Courthouse handles criminal and traffic matters and takes no civil filings, so a Downey injury case is filed in the Southeast District at the Norwalk Courthouse, 12720 Norwalk Boulevard. 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. A claim against the City uses the City of Downey Claim Form, published in English and Spanish and delivered or posted to the City Clerk’s Office at 11111 Brookshire Ave, 3rd Floor, on (562) 904-7280. The City states that “claims will not be accepted electronically,” Government Code section 915a requires the claim to be filed with the City Clerk, the published deadlines are six months after the occurrence for personal injury or property damage and one year for real property, and the City asks for copies of supporting documents and photographs and prints a warning that presentation of a false claim is a felony under Penal Code section 72.
Looking for a top-rated, trusted personal injury lawyer in Downey?
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 Downey. We know how a Downey 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 Downey and find out where you stand.
Meet your Downey 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 Downey and all of Los Angeles County. Get directions
What the Downey numbers show
- Third worst in its group statewide: In the Office of Traffic Safety rankings for 2023, where rank 1 is the worst, Downey ranked 3rd of 62 cities its size for total fatal and injury crashes, with 736 victims. Only two comparable cities ranked worse.
- Night-time is just as bad: 81 nighttime fatal and injury collisions, also 3rd of 62. These are rate-based rankings adjusted for population and traffic volume, so this says worse than cities its size, not the highest raw count in California.
- Pedestrians: 54 victims, 6th of 62, putting Downey in the worst tenth of cities its size. Hit and run ranked 10th of 62 with 64 collisions.
- Neither Downey hospital is a trauma center: PIH Health Hospital Downey and Kaiser Foundation Hospital Downey are both assigned to St. Francis Medical Center, a Level II adult trauma center, under the County's umbrella directory.
- No civil courthouse in the city: Downey Courthouse takes criminal and traffic matters only. A Downey injury case is filed in the Southeast District at the Norwalk Courthouse.
- No electronic claims: The City will not accept a claim by email or any electronic route. It has to be posted or delivered to the City Clerk within six months.
- The City has already studied its streets: Walk Downey, the City's Active Transportation Plan, was completed in June 2021 with $300,000 of state Active Transportation Program funding, recommending 33.6 miles of bikeways and a toolkit of intersection safety treatments.
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.
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Downey 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 Downey the trauma record often sits at St. Francis Medical Center rather than at the hospital you were first taken to, so bring the names of both.
The first conversation costs nothing and creates no obligation. A Downey 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.
In the Southeast District, at the Norwalk Courthouse, 12720 Norwalk Boulevard. This surprises people, because Downey has a courthouse of its own, but Downey Courthouse handles criminal and traffic matters and has no civil division at all. 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 own filing locator returns Norwalk for Downey addresses. Plan for witnesses and treating doctors to travel, and be sceptical of anything you read online that sends a Downey civil case to the Downey courthouse.
Because neither Downey hospital holds a trauma designation. PIH Health Hospital Downey and Kaiser Foundation Hospital Downey are both absent from the California Emergency Medical Services Authority list of designated trauma centers updated 8/25/2025. The Los Angeles County EMS Agency, which is the designating authority in this county, assigns both of them to St. Francis Medical Center, a Level II adult trauma center, in its umbrella directory effective 1 April 2025, and its catchment map places Downey inside the St. Francis area. For a claim, that commonly means an emergency record at one hospital and the trauma record at another, with separate billing and separate lienholders. Collecting both sets early is how a demand gets built properly.
It depends on the bus. Downey has a city-badged local service, Downey Link, and the city also connects to the Metro C Line, so the answer is not automatic. If it was a Metro vehicle, Metro directs damage claims to Metro Customer Relations at One Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, and publishes claim forms in English and Spanish, with a stated ninety-day window for its written reply. That ninety days is Metro’s internal timetable and has nothing to do with your own deadline, which is the one that matters. For a city-operated service the claim follows the City of Downey route, on paper, within six months. Identify the operator from the vehicle, the stop or the trip record before any deadline runs.
Yes, in two ways. First, a collision on a freeway is normally investigated by the California Highway Patrol rather than Downey Police, which changes who holds the report. Second, the roadway itself belongs to the state rather than the City, so a claim based on the condition of the road is presented to a different public entity. Downey is also one of five member cities of the I-5 Consortium Cities Joint Powers Authority, with Norwalk, La Mirada, Commerce and Santa Fe Springs, covering Interstate 5 between the I-710 and State Route 91 junctions, and the stretch of I-5 through Downey between the San Gabriel River and Rio Hondo bridges is officially the Downey Police Officer Ricardo Galvez Memorial Highway, designated by the Legislature in 2016.
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