Historically, in employee injury cases where the main defendants’ assets and coverage are insufficient to satisfy the potential money judgment, and where an unlimited source of insurance monies exist in the form of the...
July 16, 2021
Inefficiency in The Courthouse: The Nonsense in Withholding Settlement Amounts From Non-Settling Tortfeasors (July 2021)
Authored and researched by Tim Capowski with assistance from former colleague(s). A vexatious area of law is the faux confidentiality afforded to settlement amounts between settling plaintiffs and settling tortfeasors, as...
IRVINE, CA – July 13, 2021 Kahana & Feld LLP welcomes Edwin H. Noah, Esq., as an associate with the firm’s Labor and Employment Litigation practice group. “We are excited that Mr. Noah has joined our team,” said...
The California Workers’ Compensation Act provides that the exclusive remedy of an injury to an employee arising out of and in the course of employment is the right to recover workers’ compensation benefits. (Lab. Code,...
On March 18, 2021, California’s legislature approved SB 95, which creates new Labor Code Section 248.2 and Labor Code Section 248.3. The new legislation significantly expands an employer’s requirement to provide...