If you have a viable lemon law claim, California’s strong legal protections provide a number of available legal remedies to you. As mentioned above, the manufacturer must either replace your defective vehicle with a new one or repurchase the vehicle (deducting the mileage offset from the purchase price). In addition, the manufacturer must also reimburse you for incidental and consequential damages, such as the cost of renting a vehicle and other expenses you incurred while the vehicle was in the shop. Finally, you will also be awarded attorneys’ fees and costs (legal expenses related to your lemon law claim). This means that you will not pay any attorneys’ fees to us unless and until we recover for you. 100% of our fees and costs are paid from our settlements by the automakers – you pay us nothing unless we obtain a recovery for you.

Additionally, if the manufacturer willfully violated provisions of the California lemon law (as they so often do), the manufacturer may be forced to pay you additional damages – above and beyond what you paid for your troubled vehicle. California’s strict lemon laws punish manufacturers that are delinquent on their legal obligations by forcing them to pay up to 2-times the purchase of the vehicle to the consumer as a penalty. Our clients, in fact, oftentimes recover monetary damages significantly beyond what they paid for their troubled vehicle.