Luella Bettencourt
Of counsel · Settlements and lasting injury
Luella reads every settlement before you sign it. She grew up on a dairy outside Tulare and has handled injury claims for dairy, field and shop workers ever since.
Luella focuses on the part of a claim that lasts: permanent limits, future medical care and what a settlement closes for good.
She also trains the rest of us. If an offer lands on your kitchen table, she's the one who tells you what it leaves out.
Credentials
Bar, courts, school, languages
Bar admissions
State Bar of California
Admitted 1989
Courts
Workers' compensation hearing offices
Central California
Education
J.D., University of San Francisco School of Law
B.A., History
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Languages
English
Fluent
Portuguese
Conversational
Memberships
Tulare County Bar Association
Workers' compensation section, State Bar of California
Working with Luella
Luella speaks English, and some Portuguese. When you prefer Spanish, Alondra or an interpreter joins the meeting, so that every question and every answer is understood.
She will go through a settlement offer with you line by line, with a pen, and tell you what it pays now, what it pays later and what it takes away. Then the decision is yours.
Ask for Luella by name.
Say what happened and which language you prefer. We will set up the first call.
No recovery, no fee. Costs are explained in your fee agreement before you sign.