While many politicians and pundits are still trying to digest what did, or didn’t happened in the national election races, at least one state-level electoral preference was made abundantly clear....
Opinion Mondays: California Voters Tell Elected Officials to Leave Their Ride-Sharing Alone Opinion Mondays: California Voters Tell Elected Officials to Leave Their Ride-Sharing AloneA federal district court in California recently held that a plaintiff’s claims against her former employer, a private operator of correctional facilities, for negligent supervision and intentional infliction of emotional...
California Employee's IIED Claim Against Employer for Inadequate COVID-19 Protocols Barred by Exclusivity California Employee's IIED Claim Against Employer for Inadequate COVID-19 Protocols Barred by ExclusivityIn a case involving an utterly bizarre fact pattern, as well as a legal battle stretching out over the bulk of a decade, the Supreme Court of California, in a...
Opinion Mondays: Is California's "Posse Law" Passé? Opinion Mondays: Is California's "Posse Law" Passé?As the nation moves, with fits and starts, toward some sort of recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, many within the workers’ compensation system are still trying to digest significant changes...
Opinion Mondays: 30 Days into California's COVID-19 Executive Order, Questions Abound Opinion Mondays: 30 Days into California's COVID-19 Executive Order, Questions AboundA California appellate court affirmed a $2.9 million judgment entered against a former movie industry employer who botched the green card application process of one of its foreign employees, resulting...
$2.9 Million California Judgment Against Employer Stands in Muddled Green Card Application Case $2.9 Million California Judgment Against Employer Stands in Muddled Green Card Application CaseYesterday (September 18, 2019), California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 5—the much talked about “gig worker” law that strikes at the heart of the business model for...
California Governor Signs “Gig Worker” Bill into Law California Governor Signs “Gig Worker” Bill into LawThere are some who point out that LeBron is getting ready to pay the highest taxes in his life (with a $154 million contract, he can afford it), that he...
The Real Reason LeBron is Moving to the Lakers! The Real Reason LeBron is Moving to the Lakers!Where a California employee alleged facts showing that she was raped while working on the employer’s premises by a drunk nonemployee trespasser, that the employer knew or should have known...
Raped California Hotel Employee May Proceed Against Employer under State’s Fair Employment and Housing Act Raped California Hotel Employee May Proceed Against Employer under State’s Fair Employment and Housing ActWhere a California worker developed a number of conditions during her 26-year career with her employer, including carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), which medical experts attributed 90 percent to industrial factors...
California: Apportionment Inappropriate Where PTD Results From Medical Treatment, Not the Underlying Condition California: Apportionment Inappropriate Where PTD Results From Medical Treatment, Not the Underlying ConditionObserving that California’s “required vehicle” exception to the going and coming rule arises where the employee’s use of his or her own vehicle gives some incidental benefit to the employer,...
California In-Home Caretaker Awarded Benefits for Injuries Sustained in Bicycle Accident California In-Home Caretaker Awarded Benefits for Injuries Sustained in Bicycle AccidentWhere a Mississippi resident contracted coccidiodomycosis (“Valley Fever”) at a job site in California and had received some indemnity and medical benefits under California’s Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”), he...
Valley Fever Plaintiff Fails To Establish Comp Insurance Co.’s Extreme or Outrageous Conduct Valley Fever Plaintiff Fails To Establish Comp Insurance Co.’s Extreme or Outrageous ConductApplying the firefighter’s rule, a specialized assumption of risk doctrine under which, in its most classic form, a person who starts a fire is said to owe no duty of...
California Court Uses Firefighter’s Rule to Bar Negligence Action By UPS Driver California Court Uses Firefighter’s Rule to Bar Negligence Action By UPS Driver