Practice Areas
With over forty-five years of combined experience, the partners at Andrews & Hensleigh, LLP, have represented clients in many different lawsuits in both State and Federal Courts in California. Below, we list our major areas of expertise, including some examples of cases the partners handled over our careers.
Business Litigation, Business Fraud, Business Torts
Lawsuit for Fraud and Misrepresentation in the
Sale of a Shopping Center
Lawsuit for Concealing and Misappropriating
Partnership Income
Lawsuit Against Corporate Directors for the Fraudulent
Conveyance of Corporate Assets
Lawsuit Against a Bank for Allowing an Attorney
Suspended from Practicing Law to Set Up and Then
to Deplete an Attorney Client Trust Account
Lawsuit for Fraud in the Sale of a Pizza Franchise
False Claims Act (Qui Tam) and Whistleblower Protection
False Claims Act Lawsuit for Medi-Cal Billing Fraud
Whistleblower Protection Lawsuit for Retaliation by an
Employer against an Employee for Reporting
Suspected Wrongdoing
Discrimination in Employment and Wrongful Termination
Lawsuit for the Wrongful Termination of a Physician
from a Hospital's Residency Program
Lawsuit for the Wrongful Suspension of a Surgeon's
Medical Staff Privileges
Elder Abuse and Nursing Home Abuse
Lawsuit for Elder Abuse in Allowing a Patient's Broken
Hip to Remain Untreated
Health Care Litigation
Lawsuit Against the California Medical Board for
Refusing to License a Physician
Lawsuits (Writ Proceedings) to Force Hospitals to
Comply with Due Process and the Hospitals'
Bylaws in Judicial Review Proceedings
Lawsuit (Writ Proceeding) to Force a Hospital Board
to Comply with California's Open Hearing Act (the
Brown Act)
Insurance Coverage and Insurance Bad Faith
Lawsuits against various insurance companies for the
failure to defend lawsuits, including the failure to
defend a lawsuit for wrongful death, the failure to
defend a hospital from a lawsuit by a physician, the
failure to defend an attorney in a legal malpractice
lawsuit, and a failure to defend a non-profit
corporation from a lawsuit by a former employee
Lawsuits against various insurance companies for the
failure to pay life insurance benefits, including a
failure to pay because of a supposed
misrepresentation of health or weight
Lawsuits against various insurance companies for
unlawful sales practices, including the sales of
vanishing premium life insurance policies and the
sales of replacement funeral policies
Lawsuits against various insurance companies for the
failure to pay for property damage under various
insurance policies, including the failure to pay for
damage from the Northridge earthquake under
homeowner's policies, the failure to pay for mold
damage to an apartment building after water intrusion
under the apartment owner's all risk policy, and the
failure to pay for collision damage under an
automobile policy
Lawsuits for bad faith or for breach of the covenant of
good faith and fair dealing for the conduct of various
insurance companies in adjusting losses under
various insurance policies, including failure to
adequately investigate the loss, refusal to value the
damage in good faith, and making false or
misleading statements to attempt to avoid payment.
Legal (Attorney) Malpractice
Lawsuit against Worker's Compensation Attorneys for
Failure to Advise of or to File a Lawsuit Outside
Worker's Compensation
Lawsuit against a Corporate Attorney for Failing to
Return Money Held in Escrow
Lawsuit against a Probate Law Firm for Negligence in
Representing Clients With Conflicting Interests
Lawsuit against an Attorney for Allowing an Attorney
Suspended from Practicing Law to Hold Herself Out
as an Attorney and Thus to Embezzle Client Funds
Lawsuit against an Attorney for Failing to Timely Bring a
Business Litigation Lawsuit to Trial
Medical Antitrust
Lawsuit Against a Hospital for Excluding a Physician
from Practicing Radiology in the Hospital's Market
Area
Lawsuit Against a Hospital for Excluding Family
Physicians from Performing C-Sections in the
Hospital's Market Area
Personal Injury
Lawsuit Against the MTA for a Bus Striking a
Volkswagen, Causing Brain Damage to the Driver of
the Volkswagen
Lawsuit Against an Apartment Owner for Failing to
Guard Upper Floor Windows Resulting in a Fall
through a Third Floor Window
Physician Contracts, Privileging and Licensing
Representation of Physicians in Contracting with
Medical Groups, IPAs, etc.
Representation of Physicians in Privileging Disputes,
Including Representation at Judicial Review
Proceedings, throughout California
Representation of Physicians in Licensing Disputes
Products Liability and Unsafe Products
Lawsuit Against the Manufacturer and Distributors of a
Five Gallon Water Bottle that Shattered Resulting in
Serious Hand Injuries
Lawsuit Against Aspen Pet Products for the Design of
Its Pinch or Prong Collar that contributed to a Partial
Finger Amputation.
Real Estate and Construction
Lawsuits to Quiet Title to Real Property
Lawsuit for Defective Construction of Tract Housing
Lawsuit for Misrepresentation in the Sale of Model
Homes
Toxic Torts, Toxic Exposure and Hazardous Substances
Lawsuit Against the Manufacturers and Distributors of
Garage Floor Coatings containing harmful
substances including Benzene, Toluene, TDI and
MDI, that Contributed to the Cancer and the Deaths
of Three Mechanics
Lawsuit Against approximately 25 Manufacturers of
Vehicles, Brakes and Clutches Containing Asbestos,
that Contributed to the Lung Cancer of a Mechanic
Wrongful Death
Lawsuit Against a Psychiatric Hospital for the Suicide of
a Patient after a member of the Therapy Team Had
An Affair with the Patient
Lawsuit Against the Driver of a Jeep and the United
States, Where the Driver Drove Off a Road Ending
in a Cliff in the National Forest, Killing a Passenger
in the Jeep
Lawsuit Against a Hospital Where a Patient died in the
Hospital's Psychiatric Ward from the Hospital's
Apparent Overmedication and Failure to Adequately
Monitor the Patient
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