Written and reviewed by Josh Kohanim, Esq., California Bar No. 328609 · Reviewed
The attorney responsible for this site
Josh Kohanim, Esq., founder of Wise Personal Injury & Accident Law, APC, is the attorney responsible for the content of this website. He is licensed by the State Bar of California, Bar No. 328609, and his licensee profile is public at apps.calbar.ca.gov. Nothing publishes here without his review, and the review line on each page carries the date it was last read against the current law. His background is on the attorney page.
Drafting is a team effort and research is done with software, including AI tools, the same way most professional writing is done now. That does not move the responsibility. A tool does not decide what California law says on this site. The attorney does, and the linked source is how you check both of us. No page ships with a citation nobody opened, and no sentence ships that the reviewing attorney did not read.
The sourcing rule
One rule governs every factual claim here, and anyone with a browser can check it.
- Every legal statement cites a primary source. The California codes at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, the Judicial Council's civil jury instructions at courts.ca.gov, the Rules of Professional Conduct at calbar.ca.gov, or the agency that administers the rule. Never a competitor's blog post, and never a secondary summary standing in for the statute.
- The source is named in the sentence, not hidden in a link. You should be able to tell what we are relying on without clicking anything.
- Every source is opened and read before it is cited. If the page will not load, the fact stays off the site until it does.
- Every statistic carries the organization that published it, the year, and a link. A figure with no source is not published.
- We do not publish average settlement figures. An average built from unlike cases misleads more than it informs, and on this subject it misleads people who are deciding what to do next.
- Dead links are a defect, not a cosmetic problem. Outbound citations are checked automatically when the site builds, and a broken source fails the build rather than sitting there for a year.
That last rule exists for a reason. Before this site was rebuilt, an audit found a sources block published on 138 pages in which every listed external link was dead and one pointed back at our own blog. Citations that do not resolve are no better than no citations, and they give a false impression of rigor.
How review dates work
Every page carries a visible last updated date, and that date means something specific: on that day an attorney read the page against the law as it then stood. It is not the date a plugin touched the file, and it is not refreshed to look current.
| Trigger | What we do | Effect on the page |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cycle | Every page is re-read at least once a year | Date advances only if the page was actually reviewed |
| A statute or rule changes | The affected pages are rewritten, with the effective date of the change stated | Date advances and an update note is added |
| A cited source moves or dies | The citation is replaced with a live primary source, or the claim comes out | Date advances |
| A material error is found | Corrected as soon as it is confirmed, with a dated correction note | Date advances and the correction is logged below |
| A typo or a formatting fix | Corrected quietly | Date advances, no note |
The worked example is the change that most recently affected our readers. On January 1, 2025, California's minimum automobile liability limits rose to $30,000 for one injured person, $60,000 for two or more, and $15,000 in property damage under Vehicle Code section 16056. That was not an error in what we had written before, it was a change in the law, and it is handled as an update with the effective date stated rather than as a silent edit.
Corrections policy
We correct errors of fact promptly, and we say what we corrected. Three kinds of change get three different treatments.
- 1Material error of law or fact
A wrong statute, a wrong deadline, a wrong figure, or a wrong statement about what a rule requires. Corrected as soon as it is confirmed. The page carries a dated note saying what was wrong and what it now says, and the correction is listed in the log below.
- 2Non-material error
A typographical error, a broken internal link, a stale formatting artifact. Corrected quietly and the updated date is refreshed.
- 3A change in the law
Not an error. Handled as an update, with a dated note saying what changed and when it took effect, so a reader can tell the difference between an error on our part and a change by the legislature.
How to report an error. Call (424) 235-7879 and say which page, which sentence, and what you believe is correct. If you have a source, give it to us; if you do not, tell us anyway and we will find it. You do not need to be a lawyer or a client to report one.
What we do next. We check the claim against the primary source. If we were wrong, we fix the page, date the note, and add it to the log below. If we were right, we tell you why and point you to the source. Josh Kohanim, Esq., reviews and approves every correction.
Correction log
Material corrections are listed here, most recent first, with the page, the date, and what changed. As of September 4, 2026, the launch date of this version of the site, there are no material corrections to report.
What this site will never do
- Invent a statistic. No figure appears here unless its source page was opened and the number was read on it.
- Invent a case, a client, or a result. The recoveries on our case results page are real matters this firm handled. The reviews on our testimonials page are real clients, quoted as given, who received nothing for their statements.
- Guarantee or predict an outcome. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome, and Business and Professions Code section 6157.2 prohibits a guarantee or warranty of success in attorney advertising anyway.
- Call ourselves specialists, experts, the best, or top rated. Rule 7.4 of the California Rules of Professional Conduct reserves specialist language for attorneys certified by the State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. See our disclaimer.
- Publish an award or a press mention we cannot document. If a recognition appears on this site, it carries the year and the organization that gave it. If we cannot show you that, it does not go up.
- Take money for placement without saying so. No paid link, no sponsored recommendation, and no undisclosed referral arrangement appears in our content. If we ever recommend a service we have a financial relationship with, the relationship is stated in the same sentence.
- Alter a client's quoted words to make them read better, and never delete a page quietly to make a complaint about its content go away.
The standard we hold ourselves to
Much legal content on the open web is written to rank and sourced to nothing, and it gives a hurt person the impression of an answer without the answer. Our test for every page here is whether a reader could take it to a lawyer, a court, or an adjuster and have it hold up. That is why the citations are on the page rather than in a footer, and why they link to the statute rather than to us.
If a page here fails that test, the fastest way to fix it is to tell us: (424) 235-7879. What this site is legally, and what it is not, is set out in the disclaimer. How we handle what you send us is in the privacy policy. If you want an answer about your own case rather than about our standards, tell us what happened and we usually respond right away.