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Understanding Personal Injury Claims

July 11, 2010 19:00

 What is a personal injury claims?  A party can make a claim for damages when the suffer an injury when they have been harmed by another party’s negligent act.  Personal injury is generally referred to as a claim for damages to the … Continue reading → What is a personal injury...

A Common Law Solution

March 01, 2009 18:59

The Press Democrat reports on January 9, 2009 the County of Mendocino is attempting to regulate a substance that is illegal under Federal Law. Of course, one has to ask the question how a local government can regulate an illegal substance? The article titled states the County Board of Supervisors...

Creating a System that Delivers a Jury Trial by Your Peers

March 01, 2009 16:43

The San Diego Union Tribune’s recent article Analysis: Downtown Juries lack Latinos alleges: “The system for summoning jurors in San Diego is so flawed that one of every two eligible Latino jurors is never called to serve on a jury downtown… .” Based on population statistics, the researchers...

Real Word Consequence for Virtual World Statements

March 01, 2009 16:41

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat and Law.com have both ran stories on the real world ramifications of making online statements. The moral of both these stories is if you don’t want the rest of the world to know your thoughts, don’t type them. New Jersey state law requires health insurance companies...

Permanent Disaiblity after Almarez

February 26, 2009 02:25

The Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (“WCAB”) recently issued an En Banc opinion that reaffirms judicial principals of equity are to be used in determining the amount of permanent disability benefits an injured worker is to receive. The essence of this decision is to inject into the rating...

An Employer’s Duty to Return an Injured Worker to work

February 25, 2009 04:43

The Department of Industrial Relations posted an informational Power Point Presentation on its website regarding an Employer’s duty to return an injured worker to work. According to the presentation, below is a list of some the most common company policies that can lead to possible liability under...

Real Word Consequence for Virtual World Statements

February 16, 2009 06:50

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat and Law.com have both ran stories on the real world ramifications of making online statements. The moral of both these stories is if you don’t want the rest of the world to know your thoughts, don’t type them. New Jersey state law requires health insurance companies...

The cost of an employment law case

March 05, 2008 21:48

Robert Chavez v. City of Los Angeles is an excellent example of why employers must understand Fair Employment Housing Act (“FEHA”) and other employment law statutes. After five years of litigation involving a case worth $11,500, the employer will most likely have to pay both its attorney’s...

California police ordered to return medical marijuana

March 04, 2008 20:34

In City of Garden Grove (“City”) v. Superior Court of Orange County, a City police officer stopped Defendant Felix Kha (“Kha”) for failing to yield at a red light. Sitting on the front seat was a cloth bag. After consenting to the search, the officers discovered the cloth bag contained a...

California Supreme Court holds an employee does not have a right to smoke medical marijua

March 02, 2008 02:53

Medical marijuana is legal under California State Law, but illegal under Federal law. It is the latest front in the 200 year war known as federalism. At issue in Ross v. Raging Wire, Inc. was whether an employee could bring a lawsuit against his former employer for firing him for taking medical...