PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Eric Ratinoff is a partner who represents plaintiffs in personal injury, product liability, insurance bad faith, consumer fraud, medical negligence and serious automobile accidents. He has successfully tried and settled numerous cases on behalf of his clients.

Mr. Ratinoff has had many successes on behalf of his clients including several large recoveries in cases involving matters such as:

• Bad faith denial of insurance claims involving disability insurance claims, health, auto, property and life insurance policies
• Traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic personal injury matters
• Motorcycle Accidents, Auto Accidents, Trucking & Big-Rig Accidents
  
• Medical malpractice cases involving the failure to diagnose cancer, AIDS, infections, medication errors and surgical mistakes
• Defective product cases involving automobiles, household appliances and industrial equipment

PROVEN RESULTS

• In what is believed to be one of the largest medical malpractice jury verdicts in Sacramento County, Brooks Cutter and Eric Ratinoff won $7.6 million on behalf of a young woman rendered T4 paraplegic due to U.C. Davis Medical Center's failure to diagnose a tumor on her thoracic spine.
  
• $1.1 million in a chiropractic malpractice case in which the plaintiff’s chiropractor failed to diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome, resulting in permanent paralysis.
  
• High six-figure settlement in an insurance bad faith claim arising out of a fire loss, allowing the family to rebuild their home and to pay for their personal belongings that were destroyed in the fire. The terms of the settlement are confidential.
• KCR's Eric Ratinoff resolved another insurance bad faith case, wherein the insurance company low-balled an underinsured motorist claim. The case was arbitrated, and the insurance company was ordered to pay more than five times its highest offer. Mr. Ratinoff then sued the company for its bad faith in handling the claim. The case settled for a substantial and confidential amount.