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Kelby Van Patten, a Partner in the firm’s Irvine office, will join distinguished panel at the Orange County Bar Association, for their Annual Insurance Law Update. Topics: Summaries of recent first party and third party...
October 18, 2019
Risk Management: What Do All Those Contractual Indemnity and Insurance Provisions Mean, Anyway?
Your executives look to you for help drafting contracts every day. Those contracts routinely contain provisions governing insurance requirements and indemnity. What do those insurance provisions mean, and what should you...
October 15, 2019
Employers No Longer Able to Require Arbitration Agreements As Condition of Employment
Update Feb. 21, 2023 On Feb. 15, 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion affirming the District Court’s preliminary injunction on the grounds that AB 51 is preempted by the FAA. For more on that decision, please see our...
October 15, 2019
California Legislature Extends Statute of Limitations for Fair Employment and Housing Act Claims to Three Years
On October 10, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 9 into law, extending the statute of limitations for claims under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”), California’s comprehensive...
Ever since the California Supreme Court issued its groundbreaking decision in Dynamex Operations W., Inc. v. Superior Ct., 4 Cal. 5th 903 (2018), we have been monitoring its application by the lower courts. On October 8,...
The California Court of Appeal recently ruled that a “wage-and-hour” exclusion in an employment practices liability insurance (“EPLI”) policy must be narrowly interpreted to extend coverage for...
September 26, 2019
California Supreme Court Strikes Blow to Insurers’ Choice-of-Law Provisions
The California Supreme Court has struck a blow to insurers’ attempts to contract out of more policyholder friendly jurisdictions, holding that the notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy. Pitzer College v....
Eric C. Sohlgren, a partner in the firm’s Irvine office, will be speaking at the October 1st meeting of American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) – Southern California...
September 12, 2019
Governor Signs AB5 Into Law — Reshaping California’s Independent Contractor Classification Landscape
Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 5 (“AB5”), controversial legislation which will have a substantial impact on California employers when it goes into effect on January 1, 2020. AB5 enacts...
September 9, 2019
California Supreme Court Casts Doubt on Arbitration Agreements that Require Civil Litigation Procedures for Wage Claims
On August 29, 2019, the California Supreme Court held in OTO, L.L.C. v. Kho, S244630, that a mandatory arbitration agreement may be unenforceable against employee wage claims if it requires the employee to forego the...
Leila Narvid, the Managing Partner in our San Francisco office, will be speaking at the Practising Law Institute in San Francisco on the topic of #MeToo in 2019. This event is part of a 1-Day program that will address issues...
On August 8, 2019, the Department of Labor issued an Opinion Letter explaining that employees may take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) to attend a meeting discussing their child’s Individualized...