The San Fernando Valley is home to nearly two million people, and every one of them shares the same roads: the 101 crawling through Sherman Oaks, the 405 climbing the Sepulveda Pass, Ventura Boulevard stretching from Studio City to Woodland Hills, and Sherman Way cutting across the Valley floor. When a crash, a fall, or a preventable tragedy happens on those roads or in those neighborhoods, the injured person needs a law firm that actually knows this place.
Nazaryan Law, APC is headquartered in Woodland Hills, in the heart of the Valley. We are not a downtown firm that treats the Valley as an afterthought. This is where our office is, where our attorney drives every day, and where most of our clients live and work. From Glendale to Canoga Park, from Northridge to Sherman Oaks, we represent injured people across the entire San Fernando Valley in every type of personal injury case.
Every case is handled on a contingency fee basis. You pay nothing unless we win, and your consultation is always free. Call (818) 900-1888 to speak with us today.
The San Fernando Valley is defined by its freeway network. The 101 (Ventura Freeway) runs the entire east-west length of the Valley, from the Cahuenga Pass through Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, and Woodland Hills. The 405 (San Diego Freeway) cuts north-south through Sherman Oaks and Van Nuys before climbing the Sepulveda Pass toward the Westside; its interchange with the 101 is notoriously one of the most congested interchanges in Southern California. The 170 (Hollywood Freeway) carries commuters through North Hollywood and Valley Glen, the 118 (Ronald Reagan Freeway) runs across the north Valley through Granada Hills, Northridge, and Chatsworth, and the 134 (Ventura Freeway) connects the east Valley through Toluca Lake, Burbank, and Glendale toward Pasadena.
That much freeway mileage, packed with commuter traffic, commercial trucks, and rideshare vehicles, produces a steady stream of high-speed collisions: rear-end chain reactions in stop-and-go traffic, sideswipes during aggressive lane changes, and merging crashes at overloaded on-ramps.
The surface streets are just as dangerous in their own way. Ventura Boulevard is one of the longest commercial corridors in the country, lined with driveways, left turns, and pedestrian crossings from one end of the Valley to the other. Sepulveda Boulevard and Van Nuys Boulevard carry heavy north-south traffic past schools, businesses, and transit stops. Sherman Way, Victory Boulevard, and Roscoe Boulevard are wide, fast east-west arterials where speeding and red-light running are constant problems. Long, straight, multi-lane boulevards invite speed, and speed turns ordinary mistakes into life-changing injuries for drivers, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and people on foot.
Then there are the canyon roads. Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, and Coldwater Canyon Avenue connect the Valley to the Westside and Hollywood over the Santa Monica Mountains, and their curves, blind crests, and impatient commuters produce head-on and run-off-the-road crashes that flat city streets rarely see. Add the Metro G Line busway crossing surface streets from North Hollywood to Chatsworth, delivery vans working every commercial corridor, and construction activity around Warner Center, and you have a region where serious injury collisions happen every single day. We built our practice here because this is where the need is.
Car accidents are the largest share of our practice, but they are far from the only cases we handle. Nazaryan Law represents Valley residents in the full range of injury claims.
Rear-end collisions, T-bone crashes at intersections, freeway pileups, hit-and-runs, and crashes with uninsured or underinsured drivers. We handle the insurance claim, the medical billing, the property damage, and, when necessary, the lawsuit, so you can focus on healing.
Commercial trucks serving the Valley's warehouses, retail centers, and construction sites share every freeway and boulevard with passenger cars. When an 80,000-pound tractor-trailer hits a sedan, the injuries are rarely minor, and the trucking company's insurer starts building its defense the same day. Our truck accident practice moves fast to preserve driver logs, maintenance records, and electronic data before they disappear.
The Valley's wide boulevards and canyon routes draw riders year-round, and drivers who fail to check mirrors or yield on left turns put those riders in the hospital. Insurance companies love to blame the motorcyclist. California's pure comparative negligence rule means a rider can recover compensation even when partially at fault, and we know how to push back on unfair blame-shifting.
Crosswalks on Ventura Boulevard, school zones on Sherman Way, and transit stops on Van Nuys Boulevard all put people on foot inches away from distracted drivers. A pedestrian has no protection at all, so even a low-speed impact can cause fractures, head trauma, and spinal injuries. Learn more on our pedestrian accident page.
Uber and Lyft vehicles are everywhere in the Valley, shuttling passengers between Burbank's studios, the NoHo Arts District, and Warner Center. Rideshare cases involve layered insurance coverage that changes depending on whether the driver was waiting for a ride, en route to a pickup, or carrying a passenger. We sort out which policy applies and pursue every available source of recovery.
California holds dog owners strictly liable when their dog bites someone in a public place or lawfully on private property. Dog bite injuries often mean emergency care, scarring, and lasting trauma, especially for children. Most claims are paid through the owner's homeowners or renters insurance, which means you can pursue fair compensation without bankrupting a neighbor.
When negligence takes a life, California law allows surviving family members to pursue a wrongful death claim for the loss of their loved one's support, companionship, and guidance, along with funeral and burial expenses. These are the most serious cases we handle, and we handle them with the care and urgency they deserve.
Nazaryan Law represents injured clients throughout the San Fernando Valley and the neighboring Verdugo cities. Each community has its own traffic patterns, its own danger zones, and its own page on our site with details specific to crashes there.
Our home base. Our office sits in Warner Center at 21600 Oxnard Street, minutes from the 101 and Topanga Canyon Boulevard. The ongoing redevelopment of Warner Center has brought construction traffic, lane closures, and shifting signal patterns to the area. If you were hurt here, start with our Woodland Hills car accident lawyer page, or see our dedicated pages for Woodland Hills pedestrian accidents and Woodland Hills truck accidents.
Glendale's dense grid around Brand Boulevard, the Americana at Brand, and the Glendale Galleria generates constant intersection and parking-area collisions, while the 134 and the 5 funnel freeway traffic through the city's edges. Our Glendale car accident lawyer page covers what makes these cases different.
Between Hollywood Burbank Airport, the media district studios, and the 5 and 134 freeways, Burbank mixes commuter traffic, airport traffic, and production vehicles all day long. If you were injured in a crash here, our Burbank car accident lawyer page explains how we handle these claims.
Van Nuys is the Valley's civic center and one of its busiest crossroads, with Van Nuys Boulevard, Sepulveda Boulevard, Victory Boulevard, and the 405 all converging near Van Nuys Airport, one of the busiest general aviation airports in the country. Our Van Nuys car accident lawyer page has the details.
The NoHo Arts District brings nightlife, foot traffic, and rideshare congestion to Lankershim and Magnolia Boulevards, and the Metro B Line terminus adds thousands of daily transit riders crossing busy streets. Injured in NoHo? Visit our North Hollywood car accident lawyer page.
Sherman Oaks lives at the junction of the 101 and the 405, and the spillover from that interchange floods Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards with cut-through traffic every rush hour. Crashes here range from freeway pileups to fender benders outside the Sherman Oaks Galleria. See our Sherman Oaks car accident lawyer page.
Encino's stretch of Ventura Boulevard is among the busiest in the Valley, and Balboa Boulevard carries heavy traffic past the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, where drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians mix. Our Encino car accident lawyer page covers the local picture.
Home to California State University, Northridge and the Northridge Fashion Center, this community sees heavy student traffic on Reseda Boulevard and Nordhoff Street, plus fast-moving commuters on the nearby 118. Our Northridge car accident lawyer page explains what to do after a crash there.
Canoga Park sits just north of Warner Center, where Sherman Way and Topanga Canyon Boulevard meet some of the heaviest retail traffic in the west Valley around Westfield Topanga. Our Canoga Park car accident lawyer page has community-specific information.
After a serious crash in the Valley, paramedics typically transport patients to one of the region's trauma-capable hospitals: Northridge Hospital Medical Center in the central Valley or Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills. Other major hospitals serving Valley crash victims include Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, and Adventist Health Glendale.
This matters for your case, not just your health. Emergency department records, imaging, and trauma team notes from these hospitals become the medical foundation of your injury claim. We work with those records every day, we know how to obtain them quickly, and we know how to present them so the insurance company cannot minimize what happened to you. If you were treated and released, or if you did not go to the hospital at all, get evaluated promptly anyway. Gaps in treatment are the first thing adjusters use to attack a claim.
Under California Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1, you generally have two years from the date of injury to file a personal injury lawsuit. Miss that deadline and your claim is almost certainly gone, no matter how strong it was.
Some deadlines are far shorter. If your claim is against a government entity, such as a crash involving a city vehicle, a Metro bus, or a dangerous condition of public property like a broken signal or a poorly designed intersection, California Government Code section 911.2 requires you to present a government claim within six months of the injury. Many people lose valid claims because they did not learn this rule until it was too late.
Deadlines aside, evidence gets worse with time. Skid marks fade, vehicles get repaired or scrapped, surveillance footage gets overwritten, and witnesses forget. The sooner we start, the stronger your case.
You have seen the billboards on the 101 and the 405. What the billboards do not tell you is that at many high-volume firms, your case becomes a file number handled by a rotating cast of case managers, and the attorney whose face is on the sign may never learn your name.
Nazaryan Law is different in ways that matter:
Nothing up front. Nazaryan Law works on a contingency fee basis, which means our fee comes out of the recovery we obtain for you. If we do not win, you owe us no attorney fee. Your initial consultation is free, so there is no financial risk in finding out whether you have a case.
Generally two years from the date of injury under Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1. If a government entity is involved, you must present a government claim within six months under Government Code section 911.2. Because exceptions and shorter deadlines exist, the safest move is to speak with a lawyer as soon as possible after your injury.
You can still recover. California follows pure comparative negligence under Li v. Yellow Cab Co., which means your compensation is reduced by your percentage of fault rather than eliminated. Even a person found mostly at fault can recover the remaining share. Do not let an insurance adjuster talk you out of a claim by blaming you; fault allocation is exactly the kind of fight we take on.
Your own policy may protect you. Uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage steps in when the at-fault driver cannot pay, and hit-and-run crashes are typically covered as uninsured motorist claims. We review every available policy, including your own, to find all sources of recovery, and we handle the UM/UIM claim so your own insurer treats you fairly.
No. Woodland Hills is our headquarters, but we represent clients throughout the San Fernando Valley, including Glendale, Burbank, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Northridge, and Canoga Park, and across Los Angeles County. If you were injured anywhere in Southern California, call us and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right firm for your case.
Most Valley injury lawsuits are filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court and assigned to a courthouse serving the area, commonly the Van Nuys Courthouse for much of the Valley or the Chatsworth Courthouse for the north Valley, with Burbank and Glendale cases often heard in those cities' courthouses. Most cases settle before trial, but we prepare every case to be ready for the courtroom.
If you or a family member was injured anywhere in the San Fernando Valley, do not wait, and do not give the insurance company a recorded statement before you know your rights. The adjuster's job is to close your claim cheaply. Our job is to make sure that does not happen.
Nazaryan Law, APC is located at 21600 Oxnard Street, Suite 1040, Woodland Hills, CA 91367, minutes from anywhere in the Valley. Contact us online, book your free consultation, or call (818) 900-1888 now. There is no fee unless we win, and the conversation costs you nothing. Let a Valley firm that knows these roads, these hospitals, and these courthouses fight for the full compensation you deserve.
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