John Roach, Esq. | November 2, 2026 | Brain Injuries
Clients ask me some version of the same question almost every week: “If my brain is really injured, why didn’t it show up on the scan?” It’s a fair question, and it deserves a real answer instead of a dismissive one. The honest answer is… read more
John Roach, Esq. | November 1, 2026 | California Law
On October 1, a man walking in a crosswalk in San Francisco’s Excelsior District was struck by a pickup truck. Police say the driver slowed, looked back, and drove away. The man, a father of two, died after more than two weeks in the hospital…. read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 31, 2026 | California Law \ Premises Liability
Hulk Hogan’s widow, Sky Daily, and her son, Hayden Hitt, are now defendants in civil lawsuits filed in Pinellas County, Florida. According to news reports on the filings, the plaintiffs are identified only as Jane Does. One alleges she was a minor when she was… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 29, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Every October 31st, I brace for the same phone calls. A driver who says the child “came out of nowhere.” A parent standing in an emergency room hallway, still wearing a witch’s-hat headband, trying to explain to a six-year-old why the car didn’t stop. Halloween… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 24, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Early Thursday morning, a Tesla running on “Full Self-Driving” struck and killed a 71-year-old man crossing I-80 in Vallejo. The driver wasn’t drunk. He wasn’t texting. He wasn’t speeding beyond the limit. By every traditional measure, he did nothing most of us would call reckless… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 22, 2026 | California Law \ Premises Liability
Most people assume a fall on a broken San Francisco sidewalk is simple: the sidewalk is public property, so you sue the city. That assumption is wrong often enough to sink real cases. California shifts most of the maintenance duty — and often the liability… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 21, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
On Sunday, November 1, California’s clocks fall back an hour, and San Francisco’s sunset moves from around 6:13 p.m. to around 5:12 p.m. in the space of a single weekend. For most people that means an easier morning and an earlier dark. For pedestrians, it… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 20, 2026 | California Law \ Premises Liability
I took the photos in this post on Sutter Street, on the same block as my office. A section of sidewalk next to the curb has broken into loose, uneven chunks of concrete, right at a white passenger-loading zone near a child care center, where… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 17, 2026 | California Law \ Car Accidents
Every weekday morning, a Muni bus pulls up at Cortland Avenue and Folsom Street and lets a group of elementary school kids off into one of the busiest crossings in Bernal Heights. The San Francisco Chronicle recently spent a morning on that corner and watched… read more
John Roach, Esq. | October 16, 2026 | California Law \ Premises Liability
Storm season puts a predictable story in the news every year: a tree comes down, someone is hurt, and the first question everyone asks is the wrong one. It isn’t “whose tree was it.” It’s “who controlled the ground that tree stood on, and did… read more