California Personal Injury Blogs

In two recent cases (Oman v. Delta Airlines and Ward v. United Airlines), the California Supreme Court has answered important, unresolved questions regarding the application of California labor law to employees who only sometimes work

Apple must pay store employees in California for the time they spend waiting for their bags to be checked by security officers. According to a report on The Verge, the U.S. Court of Appeals for

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, has introduced the much-anticipated Pandemic Risk Insurance Act of 2020, a federal backstop for pandemic-related business interruption insurance modeled after the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act. According to a report

There is currently a huge standoff between the nation’s leading insurers and businesses such as restaurants, gyms, movie theaters and hotels that have purchased insurance policies from these companies. According to a report in The

More than 2,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in California have filed wage claims against the rideshare companies alleging the companies have treated them as independent contractors and owe them more than $630 million in lost

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has issued an expanded national emergency declaration to exempt truck drivers of hours-of-service regulations, which require them to take regular rest breaks while driving and between shifts. According

The Trump Administration announced last week that it has loosened the federal government’s “joint employer” rule for businesses that use outside contractors for a variety of jobs. According to a report and analysis in the

An Anaheim company that does inventory work for Trader Joe’s and Grocery Outlet is facing payments of back wages and fines totaling more than $1.6 million. According to a news report, the California Labor Commissioners

Javier Jimenez Jr., 37, of West Covina, was fatally struck by a metal plate while working on an HVAC system at Disneyland early morning on Aug. 29. According to a news report in the Orange

Senate and signed by Governor Newsom. According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, hundreds of thousands of independent contractors ranging from Uber and Lyft drivers to manicurists could become employees under AB5.