Samuel Bruchey

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Samuel Bruchey is a trial lawyer and co-managing partner of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP’s Beverly Hills office. His practice focuses on mass fire, insurance bad faith, personal injury, catastrophic injury and wrongful death. He joined the firm in 2007.

Mr. Bruchey has served as trial counsel in a variety of cases. His 2024 successes include a $43 million unanimous jury verdict in a catastrophic injury matter and a $12.5 million resolution of a Woolsey Fire litigation against Southern California Edison, among many other seven and eight-figure victories on behalf of consumers, homeowners and insureds.

Mr. Bruchey specializes in handling fire cases and has helped countless victims of mass fires throughout the state recover for their losses. He is a recognized expert in both litigation against homeowner insurance companies and public utilities.

Mr. Bruchey also represents clients in matters involving property insurance, health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term disability, to name a few. He helps companies recover business interruption losses resulting from fire and water losses. He has earned hundreds of millions of dollars for his clients and has a successful track record of holding insurance companies and public utilities responsible for the harm they cause.

For the past decade, Mr. Bruchey has been honored as a Best Lawyer by Best Lawyers in America and has been named a Super Lawyer in California. The rating service has also named him an Up-and-Coming Top 100 Attorney. In 2020, he was awarded “Street Fighter of the Year” by the Consumer Attorneys of the Inland Empire (CAOIE) for his $2.537 million verdict on behalf of a Temecula couple who lost their home to foreclosure after their title insurance company denied their insurance claim.

Mr. Bruchey serves on the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Consumer Attorneys of California, a member of Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles and the Consumer Attorney Association of the Inland Empire, among other organizations.

Mr. Bruchey earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Stony Brook University, a Master’s Degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree from Loyola Law School. He is married and has three children and two dogs and is a proud resident of “Beautiful” Altadena.

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