Bakersfield, California Personal Injury Lawyer Resources

Bakersfield sits at the southern end of California's Central Valley, where I-5, Highway 99, and Highway 58 funnel enormous volumes of commercial truck traffic, oilfield equipment, and commuter cars into and out of Kern County. The mix of heavy freight, agricultural operations, oilfield work, and long rural highways makes Bakersfield injury cases look different than cases in a dense urban core. They tend to involve higher speeds, longer distances, and defendants who are often sophisticated commercial operators backed by experienced defense counsel.

California's pure comparative fault rule governs every Bakersfield injury case. That means an injured person can recover even when they were partly at fault, with damages reduced by their percentage of blame. The state generally applies a two-year statute of limitations to personal injury claims, but claims against government entities (the City of Bakersfield, Kern County, Caltrans) require a formal government claim filed within a much shorter window. Medical malpractice and wrongful death have their own deadlines. Missing any of these is usually fatal to the case, and in my 32 years of practice it is one of the most common reasons strong cases get lost.

Goldberg & Loren handles Bakersfield and Kern County injury cases across every major practice area: auto and truck crashes, motorcycle wrecks, oilfield and industrial injuries, premises liability, dog bites, and wrongful death. George Goldberg started the firm after beginning his career in 1994 defending airlines and insurers and switching to the plaintiff side in 1996. That defense background is useful against the experienced insurance and trucking-industry lawyers who show up on serious Bakersfield cases, because we know which arguments adjusters and defense lawyers will run and how to cut them off early.

Below you will find our Bakersfield-focused articles and FAQs covering the issues Kern County clients ask about most often in a first consultation.

If you were hurt in Bakersfield or anywhere in Kern County, the consultation is free, we come to you if you cannot travel, and you pay nothing unless we recover money for you. Call us 24/7 at 1-888-352-9243.