Eric Ratinoff
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Eric Ratinoff
Biography
I started my firm because I wanted to provide my clients with my own brand of excellent legal representation, consistent with my unique human qualities of compassion, strength, caring and integrity. I have represented injured people for over twenty years. While I have very successfully tried and settled many cases over the years, I take nothing for granted. For that reason, I work very hard – harder than most. I do it because I love what I do and I am constantly striving to improve, learn new ways of doing things, better ways of connecting with juries. My clients deserve no less. I am proud of all of the great work that my team and I have done for our clients. Some of the cases in which I have made the biggest difference for my clients have included traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, motorcycle accidents, trucking and car accidents, medical malpractice cases, insurance bad faith cases, wildfire litigation, and product liability lawsuits. One of my trial victories involves what is believed to be the largest medical malpractice jury verdict in Sacramento County history. With a former law partner, I recovered $7.6 million on behalf of a young woman rendered T4 paraplegic due to a Medical Center’s failure to diagnose a mass on her spine. Over the past five years, I have personally represented hudreds of home and business owners who lost everything to preventable wildfires in California's foothills and wine country.
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice
Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
Personal Injury
Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
Products Liability
Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
Fees
- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
Languages
Professional Experience
Founder Eric Ratinoff Law Corp
Year: 2015 - Current
Description: I am dedicated to obtaining the best possible results for my clients in all of my cases. I have been a lawyer for over 20 years, and I only represent injured people in personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, employment, and insurance bad faith cases. I love being a lawyer, and I take the time to get to understand my clients, their injuries, and the the many ways their injuries have had a lasting effect on them and their families. Over the years I have obtained multiple seven figure results for my clients. I encourage you to look at my website (www.ericratinoff.com) and to view my profile on LinkedIn (www.LinkedIn.com/in/EricRatinoff).
Partner/associate Friedman, Collard, Cutter & Panneton
Year: 1993 - 2002
Description: Plaintiffs civil trial lawyer on behalf of injured people in personal injury, product liability, automobile accident, medical malpractice, elder abuse, employment and insurance bad faith cases.
Partner Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff
Year: 2002 - 2015
Description: Plaintiffs civil trial lawyer specializing in serious personal injury cases and insurance bad faith cases. I represent clients when they have been injured by defective products, car accidents, negligent doctors, nursing homes, truck accidents, and motorcycle accidents. My insurance bad faith cases involve disability, life, homeowner, long-term care, fire, and property and casualty policies.
Professional Associations
Brain Injury Association of California Member of the Board (2014 - Current)
Consumer Attorneys of California Member of the Board (2014 - Current)
Consumer Attorneys of California Member (1993 - Current)
Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association Member (1993 - Current)
American Association for Justice Member (1992 - Current)
Sierra Forever Families President (2009 - 2014)
Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association President (2006 - 2006)
Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association President (2006)
Publications
Telling the Truth: Our most important trial skill Plaintiff Magazine (February 1, 2012)
Awards
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Northern California Super Lawyers
Thompson-Reuters 2019.0
Note: Eric Ratinoff has been named to Thompson-Reuters' Northern California list of Super Lawyers for 10 consecutive years, including Northern California's Top 100 and Sacramento's Top 25 Super Lawyers.
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Best of the Bar
Sacramento Business Journal 2019.0
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Top 100
National Trial Lawyers 2019.0
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Top Lawyers
Sacramento Magazine 2018.0
Education
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The Trial Lawyers College
Year: 2004
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University of California - Davis J.D. | Law
Year: 1990 - 1993
Honors: Editor, U.C. Davis Law Review, American Jurisprudence Award, Legal Writing
Speaking Engagements
Setting up Your UM/UIM Case for the Subsequent Bad Faith Case, CAOC Annual Convention, San Francisco, November 15, 2019, CAOC, https://www.caoc.org/index.cfm?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=68160
Setting up Your UM/UIM Case for the Subsequent Bad Faith Case, CAOC Annual Convention, San Francisco, November 15, 2019, CAOC, https://www.caoc.org/index.cfm?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=68160
Websites
Eric Ratinoff Law Corp
401 Watt Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95864