You want an attorney who's not afraid to litigate and willing to put in the hard work to gather evidence and build the strongest case in order for you to get the biggest settlement offer, or award in a courtroom. But even better when you can find one where the attorney doesn't keep you at arm's length, doesn't treat you like just a number, just one among many clients.

That's just what consumers told us they were lucky to find in Napa County firm Bruce L Ahnfeldt in Napa CA who since 1980 has been representing victims and getting their due compensation for everything from simpler injuries, to more complex claims like asbestos related cases, brain and neurological, medical malpractice, and injuries caused by machines and equipment.

Personal Attention From an Experienced and Tough Litigator: Bruce Ahnfeldt in Napa CA

For many victims, finding an attorney is just a small part of what they're going through. There's coordinating the medical treatment, fending off the insurance adjustors who are often trying to pump them for information to build a defense, and just dealing with having their life turned upside down.

At many other law offices, the client is left on their own for much of that, and has difficulty getting ongoing questions answered by the attorney, or even getting their calls returned. Unlike those firms, clients of Bruce L Ahnfeldt in Napa CA get personal and ongoing attention, and not just from an associate or paralegal in the office but from their attorney Bruce Ahnfeldt. Bruce tells us, "We give each client individualized attention. We help them coordinate their medical treatment, deal with the insurance adjustors for them, and stay in communication throughout the process to keep them updated and see how they're doing. They're an actual person to us who is going through something, and we care."

And Bruce explains that the sooner a victim contacts him after an incident, the better it is. He tells us, "Often the insurance adjustor will keep after them, pretending to be their friend but their real interest is to gather information they can pick from to avoid paying what they owe. We immediately tell the insurance company to cease direct contact with the client and to go through us on their behalf. We also make sure they get the right kind of medical care, and the right amount. Sometimes choosing the wrong kind of practioner can undermine the case, just as delaying medical treatment can."

Bruce Ahnfeldt is especially known for his expertise in asbestos cases, which he's been doing since the 1980's and so now has decades of technical knowledge and experience that other attorneys lack. This is key because those claims require an attorney with a depth of knowledge of the medical issues, the specific products that caused the exposure, and the companies that manufactured them.   Bruce says, "I have years and years of accumulated information and documents that a person not doing this wouldn't even know existed."

Another expertise of attorney Bruce Ahnfeldt is dealing with claims against Kaiser Permanente.  He tells us, "First, there's an expertise required for claims of medical malpractice by any provider, but even more so with Kaiser because they have their own litigation system. It's not through the Superior Court system. They have distinct procedures for choosing arbitrators, specific timelines, and the hearings are conducted differently. We also have a good rapport with the claims management people at Kaiser so many times we don't even have to litigate when we can show that their own records reflect malpractice. And the fact I've done numerous trials against Kaiser makes them aware that we will go to the mat for the client. As a result, we've been very successful in settling with Kaiser without the need to go to trial."  As an example he cites a client who had life-altering surgeries because doctors originally failed to diagnose a cancer, which ended in a seven figure settlement for the client.

A client named Audry who we called for this article backed this up when she said, "I was more than satisfied with Bruce Ahnfeldt. He was a pleasure to work with. He's very diligent. And we settled out of court which was also good because I didn't want to go to court.  Bruce is ethical, a pleasure to work with, a nice man. I hope you use him because he is good."

Bruce Ahnfeldt lives in Napa CA with his wife and is a father of three.  He is the quintessential Napa man, running with his wife an award winning winery and McClelland-Priest, a charming bed and breakfast in a beautiful historic Victorian. "I view Napa as an oasis of the Bay Area," Bruce says. "We're a unique place surrounded by beautiful countryside with wonderful people. It's just a wonderful community."   Friends describe him as hard-working and motivated. Clients say how thankful they are for the help he gave them, and usually that the results were better than they ever expected. Like one client named Ron who told us, "He's a great attorney, excellent. He got me more money than I thought I was going to get."

So it was clients in Napa County who pointed to attorney Bruce L Ahnfeldt in Napa CA as the one with the decades of experience necessary to get good results even in complex or specialized cases, coupled with compassion for their situation and personal attention throughout the process unlike high volume firms that often don't even return their calls.   In the words of another client, Keith who we called, "I was very satisfied with work that he and his staff put in my case. He's very thorough and a very likable person as well. It worked out really well. I'm very happy, very satisfied. I highly recommend Bruce Ahnfeldt."