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BACKGROUND

I. Claim for Damages Presented on Behalf of Plaintiffs’

Mother On May 15, 2021, plaintiffs’ mother, Alicia Flores, allegedly suffered injury when she fell out of a wheelchair and hit her head on a public sidewalk in the City of Los Angeles (the city). Around a week later, on May 21, 2021, Flores died. Within six months of the incident, on November 5, 2021, attorney Isaac Toveg (who represents plaintiffs in this matter) presented a claim for damages to the city (Claim No. C22-02454), listing Flores as the claimant and indicating she had died a week after the May 15, 2021 incident.2 The claim alleges the city caused injury to Flores by “[n]ot maintaining the sidewalk and leaving it in a state of disrepair and . . . riddled with holes and gaps.” According to the claim, Flores’s wheelchair came into contact with a raised portion of an uneven sidewalk, and the impact caused her to fall out of the wheelchair and hit her head on the sidewalk.

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Government

Code. 2 Under the Government Claims Act, a “claim relating to a

cause of action for death or for injury” must be presented to the public entity “not later than six months…