Experienced San Francisco Personal Injury Lawyer

attorney Boone Callaway San Francisco Our reputation as plaintiff’s personal injury attorneys in San Francisco precedes us. Insurance companies in particular know that we are great lawyers who work hard for our clients, skillfully negotiating settlements when possible, but willing to take matters to trial to ensure our clients receive a fair outcome. Judges know that we only take cases with clients who have real, significant injuries. Therefore, when possible, insurance defense attorneys are willing to settle cases with us.

Boone Callaway is one of only a handful San Francisco personal injury lawyers who’s AV Rated, a Super Lawyer, an ABOTA Member and is a prior San Francisco Trial Lawyer President (Daily Journal Interview). Callaway & Wolf has served San Francisco and the Bay Area for over 25 years and has settled, or gone to trial on hundreds of cases.

Callaway & Wolf is located at 1388 Sutter St Suite 1010, San Francisco, CA 94109 (open in Google Maps) just a few blocks from Lafayette Park. Please call us now at 415-541-0300 to schedule a free consultation regarding your personal injury claim and get your initial questions answered quickly, or click here to fill out a contact form for us to contact you ASAP.

Recent Review:
“Throughout the duration of my personal injury case I felt as if Boone Callaway & his colleagues were extremely helpful, always very informative, and most importantly, communicative. I felt very confident letting him represent me. Boone understood me and was a great advocate for me. I was very comfortable letting him speak for me and tell my story. Overall, I feel he had my best interest and was very pleased. From my experience I can tell you Boone is very passionate about his work & helping his clients. If you want someone who exhibits professionalism, great attention to detail, and is very respectful I highly recommend Boone Callaway.”
– Google Verified Review From Justin Z.

Recent Personal Injury Settlements We’ve Won For Our Clients:

$5.25 million for the family of a 69-year-old woman who was fatally injured when she was hit by a bus while crossing the street in Albany.
A bicyclist hit by a street sweeper who received a $4.7 million dollar settlement.
A mother and daughter who received a $2.675 million settlement for the death of their husband and father, who was misdiagnosed in an emergency room.
$1.2 million for a San Francisco motorcyclist who sustained a mild traumatic brain injury after being hit from behind, but had no loss of consciousness, and was able to push his motorcycle to the curb and take an Uber home from the scene.
$800,000 for a woman who tripped and fell, sustaining a badly broken ankle, while protecting her dog from an unleashed dog which attacked it as she walked in Oakland.
A pedestrian who received a $352,000 verdict against the City of San Francisco.
A pedestrian who sustained a badly broken leg when he was struck by a car, and received $500,000.
$450,000 for a woman whose leg was broken when she was knocked down by a doorman at her apartment building.
A woman who received an arbitration award for the legal maximum pain and suffering damages in a medical malpractice case—$250,000—due to a negligent gynecological procedure.

Personal Injury Lawsuits

Personal injury litigation encompasses any type of civil lawsuit involving “torts” in which the plaintiff suffered injuries and damages as a result of the wrongful conduct of another. Torts are social wrongs, rather than criminal wrongs or contractual breaches. They are often covered by common law, rather than codified in statutes. Injuries in these lawsuits can be as simple as a broken leg or as significant as a traumatic brain injury, birth defects, or even death. The wrongful conduct in a personal injury case may be negligent, reckless, or intentional.

Types of Personal Injuries We Handle

Some common personal injury cases we handle in which negligence may be involved are:

“Negligence” means that a defendant failed to act as a reasonable person would have under the same circumstances. The defendant’s actions are a product of carelessness. Personal injury cases that may contain an element of intentional conduct include assault, battery, fraud, and defamation. These encompass actions so wrongful that punitive damages against the defendant may be warranted. Often plaintiffs allege both negligent and intentional causes of action in their pleadings in those cases where the state of the defendant’s mind is not known.

Personal Injury Trials in the Bay Area

Although individual judges may vary, the Bay Area is generally known as a liberal jurisdiction for civil litigation, including personal injury litigation. That means most personal injury plaintiffs with cases in the Bay Area are given a full opportunity to present their case and seek redress for harms resulting from the wrongful conduct of others. Juries in the Bay Area also tend to be liberal, favoring redress for real harms if attorneys can show they were caused by wrongful acts of others who should have known better.

Injury Attorneys Who Know How To Handle Insurance Companies

Bay Area lawyers who deal with personal injury claims on behalf of plaintiffs, insurance companies, private defendants, or big businesses comprise a relatively small community. Many lawyers for insurance companies and big businesses use strategies and techniques to make sure that injured parties do not receive large or even adequate recoveries for their injuries. This includes strong-arming plaintiffs represented by attorneys they believe to be weak with expensive and sometimes needless discovery and motions. The San Francisco personal injury attorneys at Callaway & Wolf regularly appear in San Francisco & Alameda County Superior Courthouses before judges who are very familiar with our law firm and reputation.

We Take a Personal Approach to Personal Injury Cases

As a small firm, we take pride in being attorneys who deal directly with our clients not passing them off to associates or paralegals, as happens in larger firms. When you are injured or dealing with the untimely death of a loved one, you need time to heal, not the hassle of paperwork or the stress of appearing in court to sue the person or business responsible for the injuries. It is important to select experienced attorneys with a strong reputation for knowledge and skill, as well as persistence to advocate on your behalf. We are AV-rated attorneys with more than twenty years of experience in personal injury in the Bay Area, and we do our best to keep our clients informed throughout the difficult process of litigation.

Personal Injury FAQs

Here are some of the questions we’re asked by clients most frequently. Please contact us immediately by calling (415) 541-0400 if you have a question or wish to speak with one of our personal injury attorneys in San Francisco.

Is it important to hire a lawyer right away?

Injury lawyers work on a contingent fee, so you won’t save any money by hiring one later in the process. The sooner you hire an attorney, the more they can do to help you as you go along, and take the steps to ensure that your case is on properly worked up and documented.

What are some of the things a reputable attorney can be counted on to do?

A good lawyer will contact the witnesses and get statements right away, stay in touch with you regularly to be sure that you are getting the evaluations and specialist referrals you need, among other things. At Callaway & Wolf, we prefer to get involved as early in the case as possible, and take a hands-on approach to helping clients through the process.

How much will I get with an injury case?

In almost all injury cases, the largest component of the recovery is “general damages,” money for pain, suffering, mental distress, etc. Despite what you might hear, there is no real formula or rule of thumb for injury case values. It’s basically a market economy, and lawyers rely on reports of past settlements and jury verdicts for guidance.

What happens if the insurance company won’t settle?

We’ve had many cases where we filed suit because the settlement offer was too low. Some insurance carriers will only pay fair value when the trial date is near. Your lawyer’s ability to recognize the true value of your case is as important as anything else he or she can do for you.

Contact An Experienced Injury Attorney in San Francisco, CA

If you or someone you love has been injured through the wrongdoing of another, contact the San Francisco personal injury law firm of Callaway & Wolf by phone at 415-541-0300, or click here to use our convenient online form.

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