Benny Khorsandi, Esq.

1. Commercial Truck Accident/Wrongful Death

   Few cases are more personal than representing parents who have lost a child, and this one has stayed with Benny Khorsandi. Late one night, a young man's car was stopped in a freeway lane with its hazard lights on when a tractor operated by a major national trucking company slammed into it from behind, killing him. He was his parents' firstborn son, still lived at home, and spent time with them every day. Benny came to know firsthand the depth of a loss the family could barely put into words. The driver was speeding with a fogged windshield and his wipers off, and he admitted that if he had seen the lights, he would have changed lanes. The trucking company's internal review rated the crash preventable and identified its driver as the root cause, yet the company refused to accept responsibility, arguing that the car should never have been stopped in a live lane and that its driver had no time to react.

   Benny refused to let the company's version of events stand. He and the team kept pressing, and the turning point came when evidence the company had withheld, produced only after a court order, contradicted a sworn declaration from its own safety executive. For Benny, the case was about ensuring a grieving mother and father were heard and that a corporation was held accountable for what its own records had already admitted. The case resolved for $6,500,000.

2. Failure to Yield Accident

   Benny Khorsandi's client was a 59-year-old grandmother working in retail when a driver turning left failed to yield and crashed into her, totaling both cars. She lost consciousness, returned to the emergency room the next day, confused and struggling to find her words, and within a month developed tremors and PTSD. Over the following years and more than 90 treatment visits, she was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and chronic pain; she never returned to work and came to need a full-time caretaker.

   Benny watched a hardworking grandmother lose her independence almost overnight, and he made it his mission to show the defense exactly what she had lost. The defense's own medical examiner conceded the brain injury, but the defense blamed her ongoing symptoms on prior anxiety, depression, headaches, and a naturally occurring tremor, and it offered just $250,000.

   Benny and the team answered with the timeline: her doctor documented no tremors a year before the crash, the tremors began within 30 days after it, and objective vestibular testing confirmed the brain injury. Because her care came almost entirely from in-network providers, the defense could not argue her treatment was attorney-driven.

   Benny refused to let the client’s life-changing injury be written off as a product of her age or her history, and the case resolved for $1,500,000, six times what the defense had initially offered. For Benny, the result was proof that patience and careful preparation can turn a dismissive offer into real justice.

3. Commercial Vehicle Accident

   Benny Khorsandi describes this client as a working-class man with a working-class back: someone who had the aches and pains that come from years of hard work but had never lived with chronic pain until an 80,000-pound commercial asphalt grinder rear-ended him on the freeway.

   From the start, he was honest and forthcoming about every prior injury, and Benny believed he deserved justice and his day in court. Herniated discs in his neck and back did not respond to therapy or injections, and he ultimately turned to a spinal cord stimulator. The defense disputed liability, called the impact minor, and leaned on workers' compensation records it claimed showed serious back pain months before the crash; its medical expert even went so far as to call the client a liar.

   Working alongside Nikta Yazdi, Benny deposed the defense medical expert and exposed both his long history of testifying for the defense and an opinion based on a misreading of the medical record. The physician who had treated the client's earlier work injury conceded it never involved his spine, and the defense withdrew its own accident reconstruction expert.

   In the final weeks, Benny relentlessly put pressure on the defense. The result was a $3,000,000 settlement, and for Benny, it confirmed what he believed from day one: an honest, hardworking client who is willing to fight deserves a team willing to fight just as hard for him.

• Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA)
• American Association for Justice (AAJ)
• Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)

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