Eustace de Saint Phalle

Eustace de Saint Phalle

Eustace de Saint Phalle is a partner with Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver, PC in San Francisco. He manages the personal injury practice for the firm statewide. The firm’s personal injury practice focuses on civil litigation in a variety of areas, including industrial accidents, product liability, exceptions to workers’ compensation, premises liability, professional malpractice, auto accidents, maritime accidents and construction defect accidents.

Articles written by this author:

Protecting first-responder plaintiffs from misuse of the firefighters’ rule

To prevent the defense attorney from playing fast and loose with the firefighters’ rule, know the exceptions


Defending your treating physicians’ opinion testimony

Know your treating physicians’ opinions, and get them admitted


How to maximize your client’s recovery in a workers’ compensation credit hearing

Proving employer fault for the injury can offset the WC credit against your recovery – and you can be paid for your work as an expert witness on damages


Dealing with the [[case]]Cuevas[[/case]] decision

Dealing with the [[case]]Cuevas[[/case]] decision

Regarding future medical costs, the appellate court overlooked the uncertainty of health insurance in the future


Dealing with the [[case]]Cuevas[[/case]] decision: The ACA

Dealing with the [[case]]Cuevas[[/case]] decision: The ACA

The basis for a legal argument that ACA insurance benefits cannot be relied upon to meet your client’s future medical needs


The cost of future medical care and [[case]]Cuevas[[/case]]

A look at the methodologies of calculating future medical costs since the [[case]]Cuevas[[/case]] decision


Medicine for attorneys: Fractures

How to present fractures and associated injuries at trial


Don’t let the defense misuse social media to depict your client

How defendants misrepresent a plaintiff’s condition through social media


Medicine for attorneys: Spinal injuries

Understanding and presenting spinal/back And neck injuries at trial



Trial: It can be more than a monetary decision

Reclaiming our right to define the role of the plaintiff’s attorney