Legal Question in Personal Injury in California

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In addition to Mr Moheban's response, since you filed a criminal complaint, the prosecutors in that case could/should have contacted you for your witness statement of events and damages, and then sought an order for 'restitution' to be paid by the criminal defendant. If the case is over, as you seem to indicate, then that process was apparently not followed as part of the plea bargain or sentencing. You could contact the prosecutor's office in that case to inquire what happened and whether you are entitled to restitution.

To file a PI case, you will probably need to consult with, as a starting point, a CA PI attorney to check the issues of the 'legal' location of event, residence of the defendant, compensable damages, etc., to determine where such case must be filed. He could help you locate an attorney in some other state if that is where it must be filed, or if it could be filed in Federal Court, and where.

Had this happened 'on the ground', the answers would be easy.