Ricardo Echeverria
Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP
Ricardo Echeverria is a insurance bad faith, catastrophic injury and wrongful death trial lawyer with Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP in Claremont, California. Admitted in California; J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law (1993).
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Claremont, California 91711
Ricardo Echeverria is a trial attorney with Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP in Claremont, California. He handles insurance bad faith and catastrophic personal injury cases.
Echeverria is a past president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), which he led in 2017, and has served on its Board of Governors since 2003. In 2026, CAALA inducted him into its Hall of Fame. He was inducted into The Inner Circle of Advocates in 2024 and was elected a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2014.
According to his firm biography, his trial record includes a $68 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice case in Fresno, California, a $42.4 million verdict for a pregnant mother who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a head-on collision, and a $25.7 million verdict in a catastrophic personal injury case. CAALA named him Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2010.
Echeverria received a B.S., magna cum laude, from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, in 1990 and a J.D. from Santa Clara University in 1993. He was admitted to the California bar in 1993.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, B.S., magna cum laude (1990)
- Santa Clara University School of Law, J.D. (1993)
- Admitted to the State Bar of California (1993)
- Admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1993)
Practice Areas
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (2017 President; Board of Governors since 2003)
- The Inner Circle of Advocates
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- American College of Trial Lawyers (Fellow)
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- Consumer Attorneys of the Inland Empire
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Riverside County Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of California
- CAALA Hall of Fame (2026)
- Top 30 Plaintiff Lawyers in California (2018-2021, 2023, 2024)
- Los Angeles Daily Journal Top 100 Attorneys in California (2017, 2018, 2023)
- Orange County Trial Lawyers Association Top Gun Trial Lawyer of the Year (2021, 2024)
- Consumer Watchdog Lifetime Legal Achievement Award (2019)
- Consumer Attorneys of Inland Empire Trial Lawyer of the Year (2019)
- CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year (2010)
- Super Lawyers (every year since 2005)
- Best Lawyers in America (every year since 2014)
- Western San Bernardino County Bar Association Jennifer Brooks Lawyer of the Year (2011-2012)
- $68 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in a medical malpractice case in Fresno, California (Perez et al. v. Community Regional Medical Center); the National Law Journal named it one of its Elite Trial Lawyer Top 50 Verdicts in 2018.
- $42.4 Million Verdict: Jury verdict for a pregnant mother who suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in a head-on collision (Diana Estevez v. Gregory Kadlec).
- $25.7 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in a catastrophic personal injury case (Elkins v. Murchison).
- $17 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in a catastrophic personal injury case in which a security guard had his leg amputated in a forklift accident (Meier v. Pennysaver USA).
- $15 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in a wrongful death case involving a mother of two killed in a hit-and-run accident (Paregien v. Perez dba E&M Trucking).
- $13.2 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in an auto versus bicycle hit-and-run accident (Wood v. Venegas).
- $10.5 Million Verdict: Jury verdict for a former truck driver who had his leg amputated after a forklift accident (Singh v. Capay).
- $7.2 Million Verdict: Jury verdict against an insurance company for failure to settle within policy limits on behalf of its insured, in Minnesota federal court (George Martin Co. v. Royal Insurance).
- $6.9 Million Verdict: Jury verdict against Geico Insurance Company for a man injured in a motorcycle accident, for unreasonably failing to settle within its $100,000 policy limit.
- $6.2 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in Orange County Superior Court for a 24-year-old developmentally disabled man struck by a car on an outing to the OC Fair (Dotson v. Aacres, LLC).
- $5.1 Million Verdict: Jury verdict against an insurance company for low-balling victims of the October 2003 California wildfires (Stone v. Fidelity National).
- $3.3 Million Verdict: Jury verdict against an insurance company for mishandling a fire claim for victims of the 2007 San Diego wildfires (Van Zee v. Homesite Insurance).
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