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California amended general release language, which requires updates to settlement agreements.
A California court held that employees who are "on-call" for an employer but do not work a shift are nonetheless entitled to pay for being on call.
The State of California minimum wage is $11.00 per hour for employers with 26 or more employees, or $10.50 for employers with 25 or less employees. But many local cities and counties have their own minimum wage that exceeds the state minimum.
On June 30, 2017, Ford & Diulio PC Partner Kristopher Diulio obtained a resounding victory for former Edward Jones broker Ryan Flynn in front of a three-person Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Panel.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that financial companies will no longer be allowed to force customers to use arbitration to settle group disputes.
Steven Hartpence and Geraldine Godecke (“Relators”) each brought a qui tam case against their former employer, Kinetic, alleging that Kinetic had fraudulently claimed reimbursements from Medicare. United States ex rel. Hartpence v. Kinetic Concepts, Inc., 792 F.3d 1121 (9th Cir. 2015) (en band). After the allegations of Medicare fraud had been publicly disclosed, Relators had each informed the government […]
Dog owners have a responsibility to make sure that their pets are kept properly restrained. Under California’s strict liability statute, dog owners can be held financially responsible for the injuries, damages and losses their pets cause. More specifically, California’s Civil Code Section 3342 states: “The owner of any dog is liable for the damages suffered by any person […]
In Orange County as a whole, 13 people died and 1,441 were injured due to bicycle accidents in 2012. Surprisingly, there are no laws in California requiring bicyclists to wear helmets. As a result, bicyclists are vulnerable to severe injuries. Bicycle accidents are typically caused by the following circumstances: Driver wasn’t looking for pedestrians while […]
In Garcia v. Seacon Logix, Inc., Romeo Garcia and other plaintiffs were truck drivers who transported cargo for Seacon Logix. When the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began to implement a clean air program, companies such as Seacon purchased new, less polluting trucks to replace the older, higher emission trucks that had been […]
