Injury award.

Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP has scored another victory in a major liability case, though it could be seen as a split decision.

The firm, led by founding partner Browne Greene, achieved a favorable verdict against the City of Santa Monica in the case of an 81-year-old man who was injured while trying to board one of the city's Big Blue buses.

The jury ordered the city, which is known for being difficult to best in liability cases, to pay $2.7 million to Haroun Mehdipour earlier this month. He lost his left arm and sustained a brain injury when he was struck by one of the buses. Mehdipour was judged to be 25 percent at fault, which resulted in the relatively low award.

The plaintiffs asked the jury for a total award of $11.5 million.

"If the jury was going to find against the city it's about as a low a verdict as I could have expected," said Lance Gams, counsel for the city of Santa Monica. "From that perspective, I'm not disappointed. I'm somewhat gratified that they acknowledge in their finding of comparative negligence that the plaintiff was in part at fault for this accident."

Co-counsels for the plaintiffs were Shawn Azizzadeh and Michael Ross of Azizzadeh & Ross PLC.