Koorosh Banayan
Partner, Co-Founder & Senior Litigation Attorney
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With over 35 years of experience as a practicing trial attorney, Koorosh brings a unique birds-eye perspective, radical non-linear thinking and creative problem solving to every legal situation. His extensive experience in all phases of commercial, real estate, catastrophic injury and insurance litigation enables him to devise the wisest and most efficient strategy and assemble the most qualified teams of experts from around the country to achieve the best possible outcome for his clients; Be it through a successful verdict, an advantageous settlement or a creative win-win resolution.
Over the years, Koorosh has consulted and collaborated with attorneys who have recovered in excess of $20 billion in products liability, personal injury, medical malpractice and toxic tort verdicts and settlements. Whether you are involved in a complex commercial or real estate litigation, product liability, medical malpractice, insurance bad faith or catastrophic injury matter, we can help you achieve the very best possible outcome by charting your wisest path forward and seeing it to completion.
Koorosh has successfully litigated cases opposite and alongside some of the nations most recognized and successful trial attorneys and law firms. Some of his notable trial wins and settlements can be found below.
Notable Case Results
Defense judgment in a $180 million breach of contract claim, which also resulted in a $2.3 million sanction award against the opposing parties for the use of forged and altered documents.
Insurance bad faith lawsuit for wrongful delay in the payment of a $25,000 claim, resulting in a $675,000 settlement.
Insurance bad faith lawsuit for the denial of a $45,000 claim, which resulted in a $1.4 million settlement two weeks before trial.
Successful prosecution of claims for fraud, breach of fiduciary duties and legal malpractice litigated in the courts of Los Angeles, New York and Delaware, which resulted in a $44+ million dollar recovery for his clients.
An arbitration award that reinstated the clients’ wrongfully usurped property rights valued in excess of $250 million, monetary award for damages in the excess of $22 million, as well as a $450,000 sanction award for the opposing parties failure to preserve documents or withhold same from his client.
A judgment vacating a multi-million dollar note and settlement agreement, which was procured through fraud and in collusion with a party appointed arbitrator, which enabled his client to pursue a $250 million claim for his actual damages.
Insurance bad faith lawsuit for the denial of a $45,000 claim, which resulted in a $1.4 million settlement two weeks before trial.
Top 10 Insurance Bad Faith Trial Lawyer
Top 100 National Trial Lawyer
Top 10 Business Tort Trail Lawyer
