Personal Injury Lawyer in Tarzana, CA

A crash on Ventura Boulevard or at the Reseda Boulevard ramps can leave you with a sore neck, a wrecked car and a phone full of calls you never asked for. If you are searching for a Tarzana personal injury attorney, you want straight answers, not a sales pitch. Moe Abdallah Law, P.C. is a Los Angeles firm that takes motor-vehicle crash cases only, and only for people who were physically hurt or families who lost someone. Moe works from downtown LA and answers calls and texts himself. This page is a local guide. It covers the roads where Tarzana crashes happen, the LAPD station that writes your report, the hospitals close by, the court that hears the case, and the deadlines that can end a claim before you notice them.

How we help injured people in Tarzana

We handle every motor-vehicle injury case type for Tarzana residents, dealing with the insurers directly while you focus on recovery.

Tarzana is a Los Angeles neighborhood, and that shapes your claim

Tarzana is not its own city. It is a San Fernando Valley neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, with Victory Boulevard along the north edge and Topanga State Park to the south. Roughly 35,500 people lived here at the 2000 Census, and the city's 2008 planning estimate put the number at 37,778. The ZIP code is 91356. Why does that matter? Every agency that touches your case is a Los Angeles agency. LAPD writes the report. The City of Los Angeles answers claims about city vehicles and city streets. The Los Angeles County Superior Court hears the lawsuit. A mistake with any of them can cost you months, so you want a Tarzana injury lawyer who already knows how those offices work. Moe Abdallah Law, P.C. handles one kind of case: people hurt in car, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian, bicycle, rideshare and bus crashes, plus hit-and-run, uninsured driver, drunk-driving, wrongful death and brain injury cases that start with a crash. We do not take slip-and-falls, dog bites, workplace injuries or property-damage-only claims. The narrow focus is on purpose. The person on the phone has seen your kind of case before.

Ventura Boulevard and Reseda Boulevard: the streets the city itself flags

Two Tarzana streets show up on the City of Los Angeles Vision Zero High Injury Network, the city's list of street segments where severe and fatal crashes concentrate. The first is Ventura Boulevard from Winnetka Avenue to White Oak Avenue, which runs straight through Tarzana and on into Woodland Hills and Encino. The second is Reseda Boulevard from Mecca Avenue to Devonshire Street, which starts near Ventura in Tarzana and heads north through Reseda and Northridge. Both listings come from the 2018 dataset, and the city may have updated the map since, so treat them as a pointer and not a verdict on any single block. Tampa Avenue is the other big north-south street, and Victory Boulevard marks the neighborhood's northern line. We have no published crash count for Tarzana alone, so we will not rank its roads or call one intersection the worst. What we can say is that a boulevard with shops, driveways, bus stops and left-turn lights produces the same disputes again and again: who had the green, who was backing out, who stopped short. Photos from that day, nearby business cameras and witness names settle those arguments. They disappear fast, so call quickly.

The US-101 ramps at Reseda and Tampa: car, truck and motorcycle crashes

The Ventura Freeway, US-101, crosses the neighborhood with exits at Reseda Boulevard and Tampa Avenue. Drivers merge on and off those ramps all day, and the surface streets feed straight into them. Rear-end crashes in slow traffic, sideswipes during merges and wrong-lane turns off the ramps are the usual car accident patterns. Trucks use the same freeway, and a collision with a delivery van or tractor-trailer brings extra defendants: the driver, the company that employs the driver, sometimes the owner of the trailer. Truck evidence such as electronic logs and the engine's data recorder can be overwritten, so a letter demanding that the company keep it should go out early. Motorcycle riders face a different set of insurer arguments. California does not ban lane splitting, but an adjuster will still say you rode unsafely, and a helmet question can come up even when the helmet had nothing to do with your injury. California is a pure comparative negligence state under Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804. You can recover even if you carry part of the blame, and your award is cut by your share. That percentage is where the fight happens, and it is where a lawyer earns the fee.

Walking, biking and riding the bus along Ventura and Reseda

Tarzana has real foot and transit traffic. LA Metro Local Line 150 runs along Ventura Boulevard. Line 240 follows Reseda Boulevard and Ventura between Northridge and Universal City. Lines 242 and 243 connect Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Northridge and Chatsworth by way of Tampa Avenue and Winnetka Avenue. The G Line busway has a Reseda station inside the neighborhood. So walkers, riders at the curb and people crossing to bus stops share the same streets as turning cars. A driver has to yield to a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk, or in an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, under Vehicle Code section 21950. Even outside a crosswalk, a driver must still use due care. Insurers will say you crossed mid-block or looked at your phone. Witness names and camera footage answer that. If a Metro bus hit you or you were hurt inside one, the claim goes to Metro and not to the City of Los Angeles, and the six-month government claim rule still applies. Under Civil Code section 2100, a bus company or transit agency that carries passengers for a fare must use the highest degree of care and diligence to get them there safely. Cyclists on Ventura and Reseda get similar fault arguments, usually that they rode too close to parked cars or crossed lanes without warning.

Rideshare, drunk drivers and drivers who flee

Ventura Boulevard has restaurants and shopping centers along it, so evening crashes often involve a rideshare car, a driver who had too much to drink, or a driver who never stopped. Rideshare coverage depends on what the app was doing. Once a driver accepts a trip and until it ends, the company's policy carries $1,000,000 in liability coverage. Since January 1, 2026, rideshare uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage is $60,000 per person and $300,000 per incident, and it applies only while a passenger is in the car. If the driver was only logged on and waiting, different and lower limits apply. A drunk driver's conscious disregard for safety can support punitive damages in a civil case, on top of your medical bills and lost income, though they are never automatic. If the driver who hit you fled, your own uninsured motorist coverage may pay, but only if there was physical contact, you reported the crash to LAPD within 24 hours, and you filed a sworn statement with your insurer within 30 days of that report. Those steps are legal conditions, not suggestions, so do not skip one. UM coverage pays for your injuries, not your car. In one case, a driver rear-ended a woman and fled, there was no police report, and other firms had turned her down. Moe recovered the $100,000 uninsured motorist policy limit. Past results do not predict a similar outcome.

Your LAPD report, Tarzana hospitals and the courthouse that hears your case

Tarzana falls under the LAPD West Valley Community Police Station at 19020 Vanowen Street in Reseda, phone 818-374-7611. Traffic investigations go through the Valley Traffic Division at 7870 Nollan Place in Panorama City, phone 818-644-8000. LAPD asks you to wait at least 45 days after the crash before requesting a collision report online on its Request a Traffic Report page. Reports that involve an arrest, a death or a juvenile, and reports issued before February 1, 2016, have to be requested by mail. Medical care starts at Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center on Clark Street, a 9-1-1 receiving hospital that is not a trauma center. For the most serious injuries, paramedics may take you to Northridge Hospital Medical Center on Roscoe Boulevard, a Level II trauma center. Encino Hospital Medical Center and Kaiser Woodland Hills are also 9-1-1 receiving hospitals nearby, and neither is a trauma center. A lawsuit over more than $35,000 must be filed at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Smaller cases from ZIP 91356 go to the Chatsworth Courthouse on Penfield Avenue. Moe works from downtown Los Angeles, so the courthouse where most Tarzana injury lawsuits land is close to his office.

Deadlines, City of Los Angeles claims and what working with Moe looks like

You generally have two years from the crash to sue a private driver, under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1. If a city vehicle or a dangerous city street is involved, you must present a written claim to the City of Los Angeles within six months, under Government Code section 911.2. File it with the Office of the City Clerk at 200 N. Spring Street, Room 395, or through the city's online claim portal. Email and fax do not count. If the city rejects the claim in writing, you have six months from that notice to sue. California's minimum auto liability limits are $30,000 per person and $60,000 per accident, so a serious injury can outrun the at-fault driver's policy fast, and your own underinsured coverage may fill the gap. Moe has recovered $105,000 for an uninsured client with a broken sternum and $75,000 after an insurer first offered $900. Past results do not predict a similar outcome. Here is how he works. Your first call is free at any hour, and Se Habla Espanol. He takes cases on contingency, so you owe nothing unless he wins. He answers by call and text, sends evidence letters fast, and deals with adjusters while you focus on treatment. Call (323) 716-1992 when you are ready.

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