El Monte Personal Injury Lawyer
Looking for a personal injury lawyer in El Monte? Broukhim Legal PC represents people hurt in El Monte 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 El Monte.
These are the personal injury cases Broukhim Legal PC handles for people hurt in El Monte, from car and motorcycle accidents to slip and falls, dog bites and wrongful death:
Car accidents in El Monte
Pedestrian accidents in El Monte
Bicycle accidents in El Monte
Motorcycle accidents in El Monte
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 El Monte residents
Alongside injury work, Broukhim Legal PC takes on mass tort claims for people living in and around El Monte. 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 an El Monte 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. The El Monte Courthouse handles criminal and traffic matters only and has no civil division, so an El Monte injury case is filed in the East District at Pomona Courthouse South, 400 Civic Center Plaza. 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 goes to the City Clerk’s Office at 11333 Valley Boulevard, City Hall E, on (626) 580-2016, on the City of El Monte Claim for Damages form, which must be filed with the City Clerk under Government Code section 915(a), requires a diagram of the place of the accident on the reverse, asks which particular act or omission caused the injury and which City employees and department were involved, and is signed under penalty of perjury. Page two warns in capitals that “all claimants may be required to be examined as to their claim under oath” and that “presentation of a false claim is a felony,” the form’s deadlines are six months for death or injury to person or personal property and one year for other claims, and the posted form still carries a 1990 revision stamp, so expect a paper process rather than a portal.
Looking for a top-rated, trusted personal injury lawyer in El Monte?
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 El Monte. We know how an El Monte 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 El Monte and find out where you stand.
Meet your El Monte 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 El Monte and all of Los Angeles County. Get directions
What the El Monte numbers show
- Worst in its group statewide for hit and run: In the Office of Traffic Safety rankings for 2023, where rank 1 is the worst, El Monte ranked 1st of 62 California cities its size for hit-and-run collisions causing death or injury, with 80 of them.
- Near the worst end overall: Total fatal and injury victims ranked 8th of 62, with 553 people killed or injured, and the composite measure 11th of 62. Nighttime collisions ranked 10th of 62.
- Cyclists in particular: 49 cyclist victims, 6th of 62. Alcohol-involved victims ranked 10th of 62, and drivers aged 21 to 34 who had been drinking 4th of 62.
- Four in ten injury collisions involve a pedestrian or cyclist: The El Monte Vision Zero Action Plan of February 2022 counted 1,543 collisions from 2008 to 2019, of which 614, or 39.7 percent, involved pedestrians or bicyclists.
- A City target of zero by 2027: The same plan sets out a path to "zero traffic-related deaths and serious injuries on City roadways by 2027," against an average of three deaths a year over the study period and a high of seven in 2013.
- No trauma center in the city: Greater El Monte Community Hospital holds no trauma designation. The County's umbrella directory assigns it to Los Angeles General Medical Center, a Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center, so a serious injury is taken past the nearest hospital.
- No civil courthouse in the city: El Monte Courthouse takes criminal and traffic matters only. An El Monte injury case is filed in the East District at Pomona Courthouse South.
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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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El Monte 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 El Monte the police report costs nothing but has to be collected in person at the Police lobby, and the City’s own FAQ says it is generally ready in about ten business days.
The first conversation costs nothing and creates no obligation. An El Monte 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.
More common, for a city of its size, than anywhere else in the state on the latest figures. In the California Office of Traffic Safety rankings for 2023, where rank 1 is the worst in the group, El Monte ranked 1st of 62 California cities in its population group for hit-and-run collisions causing death or injury, with 80 such collisions. These rankings are rate based, adjusted for population and traffic volume, and the Office itself cautions that they are indicators of potential problems to be read against local circumstances. For a claim, the practical consequence is that your own uninsured motorist coverage often becomes the main route to recovery, and that coverage has its own notice requirements under the policy.
The East District, at Pomona Courthouse South, 400 Civic Center Plaza. The El Monte Courthouse handles criminal and traffic matters and has no civil division, so despite the city having a courthouse, an injury case goes to Pomona. One further caution specific to El Monte: the Court’s filing locator warns that a mailing address may not reflect true geographic location, and for addresses around El Monte, South El Monte, Rosemead and Temple City the locator returns different districts for different ZIP codes. For a collision near a city boundary, the specific street address should be checked rather than the city name.
Not to the hospital in El Monte. Greater El Monte Community Hospital does not appear on the California Emergency Medical Services Authority list of designated trauma centers updated 8/25/2025. The Los Angeles County EMS Agency, which designates trauma centers in this county, lists it in its umbrella directory effective 1 April 2025 under Los Angeles General Medical Center, which the state’s list records as a Level I adult and Level II pediatric trauma center. A seriously injured patient in El Monte can therefore expect to be taken past the nearest hospital, which means the emergency record and the trauma record may sit in different places.
It can, because it is the City’s own record of what it knew about its roads. The El Monte Vision Zero Action Plan, published February 2022, analysed eleven years of state collision data from 2008 to 2019 and counted 1,543 collisions in the city, of which 252 involved pedestrians and 362 involved cyclists, 614 in total or 39.7 percent. It describes the city as “bisected from east to west by Interstate 10 and surrounded by other major interstate and state highways,” with large arterials carrying higher-speed traffic directly into slower local streets. It sets a goal of zero deaths and serious injuries by 2027. Where a collision happened on a corridor the plan addresses, that document is a reasonable starting point for what the City had been told.
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