Division of settlement proceeds

Judge Person has great experience with Division of Settlement cases. Two examples of his experience with these case types are separate matters that resulted from the flooding of a golf resort area in or near Palm Springs. There were two separate groups of homeowners who had received separate settlement funds as a group. The firm that handled both of them set up two separate hearings with Judge Person, at which, without the clients in the first instance, the groups went over each of the claims and tried to rank them as equitably as possible by a number of factors. After the initial hearing, Judge Person then wrote up his recommendations and then there was a hearing with the clients who had enough interest to attend in person (both pre-COVID) and many others attended on a conference basis on the phone. Each of the potential awardees was given the right to submit written statements or speak at the hearing on behalf of themselves.