Successes

In late July, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ended a 23-year bid by a retired employee of the world’s largest aerospace company to force the company’s pension plan to retroactively recalculate decades of pension benefits she and other retirees commenced while working. The plaintiff, one of the...

Payne & Fears obtained complete summary judgment on claims brought by a former employee in federal court in Idaho. The employee, a former truck driver, alleged that she was discriminated against due to her gender and due to a disability resulting from a work-related injury, and in retaliation for filing...

Payne & Fears LLP defeated a race discrimination case brought to federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah for a large hotel and hospitality company. The employee alleged that his hours were reduced because of his race, and that he was ultimately was terminated because the employer hired an employee...

Members of the Payne & Fears Insurance Group were written up in the May 2015 edition of the “Mealey’s Litigation Report: California Insurance” when commercial general liability insurers failed to assert any claims for breach of the cooperation clause of the insurance agreement or for equitable reimbursement. A California federal...

Members of the Payne & Fears Insurance Group were written up in the April 2015 edition of the “Mealey’s Litigation Report: California Insurance” for a California federal judge dismissing an insurers’ breach of contract claim against insureds regarding an insurance policy’s potential coverage for an underlying construction defects case because...