The Law Offices of Dr. Bruce G. Fagel & Associates
The Law Offices of Dr. Bruce G. Fagel & Associates is a Los Angeles firm that handles medical malpractice exclusively, covering birth injury, cerebral palsy, brain injuries, emergency room and hospital malpractice, misdiagnosis, nursing malpractice and wrongful death.
What makes the practice unusual is its founder: Bruce Fagel is a licensed physician as well as an attorney, with ten years practising emergency medicine before more than thirty-five years in law. The firm says it has recovered over $2 billion for clients and reports a 98% success rate, and its published verdict list includes $70 million in a botched birth case, $59 million against a hospital, $49 million in a birth-injury jury award and $43.5 million for a toddler. It also handles Kaiser arbitration matters, works on a no-fee-unless-you-win basis, and offers free consultations in English and Spanish across California.
What people praise
- Founder Bruce Fagel is a licensed doctor as well as a lawyer, with ten years in emergency medicine
- Medical malpractice is the firm's only practice area, not one department among several
- Published verdicts include $70 million, $59 million and $49 million awards in birth and hospital cases
- Takes Kaiser arbitration cases, which need specific procedural experience
- Free consultation, no fee unless you win, with service in Spanish and offices serving much of California
Our take: The reason to look at Fagel is the medical training, not the Google score. At 4.4 from 69 reviews this is the lowest-rated and least-reviewed entry on the page, sitting alongside firms with thousands of reviews, so weigh those numbers honestly. What no other firm here offers is a founder who practised emergency medicine for a decade before spending thirty-five years litigating malpractice. In birth injury and misdiagnosis cases the fight is usually over whether the standard of care was met, which is a medical argument before it is a legal one, and having a physician read your records first is a real advantage. The firm's $2 billion recovered and 98% success figures are its own claims rather than independently audited ones, so treat them as marketing; the published verdicts are more checkable. Call if your case involves a birth injury or a hospital, and ask Fagel directly what the medical records show.
