The Accident Guys

About The Accident Guys

The Accident Guys was co-founded by Omid E. Dayan and Eliot M. Houman, who are listed on the firm's website as founding partners; the site identifies the firm as Dayan | Houman Professional Law Corporation. State Bar of California records show Houman was admitted to the California bar in 2011 and Dayan in 2012. According to the firm, Dayan studied law at Pepperdine and Houman at Northwestern University School of Law, and both did their undergraduate work at UCLA. Dayan's biography says he worked at a high-volume personal injury firm before co-founding the practice and that he is also licensed in Nevada, Arizona, Washington, Minnesota and Texas.

The firm's team page also names Narek Mnatsakanian as litigation chair and trial attorney and Nava Giangolini as supervising pre-litigation attorney; State Bar records show they were admitted in 2016 and 2018, respectively. In those records Houman lists Spanish, Mnatsakanian Armenian and Giangolini Farsi among the languages they speak. The team page also lists an of counsel attorney for workers' compensation matters.

According to the website, the firm's caseload centers on traffic collisions: car, Uber and Lyft, truck, motorcycle, bus, bicycle and pedestrian accidents, injured passengers, and crashes caused by uninsured, drunk, distracted or hit-and-run drivers or involving delivery vehicles. It also lists dog bites, head injuries, slip-and-fall cases, product liability and wrongful death.

The firm says it works on contingency with no fee unless it wins, offers free phone consultations and can meet clients at home, in the hospital or at work. It also says it can help clients find a doctor even if they lack health insurance. The Los Angeles office is at 6330 San Vicente Blvd, Suite 400, one of many offices the firm lists across California, and it says it serves clients in California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, South Dakota, Minnesota and Colorado. The website has a Spanish-language Los Angeles page.