California Supreme Court

• Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch Isn’t Quite Dead Yet

  By Ken Brownlee, CPCU  |  April 1, 2011

  The history of third-party bad faith claim decisions brought under state Unfair Claims Settlement Practices statutes consists of more than three decades’ worth of roller coaster battles between plaintiffs and insurers.

• Courts: Employers Have No Duty To Keep Medical Marijuana Users

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  March 25, 2011

  Employers are increasingly being confronted with users of medical marijuana on the payroll. Thus far, the courts have sided with the right to terminate or deny employment, but employers are still being advised to shore up drug policies to avoid liability from potentially impaired workers.

• Subrogation Legal Strategies

  By Christopher Tidball  |  November 3, 2010

  If you were walking down the street and saw a one hundred-dollar bill, you would probably pick it up. So why do insurance carriers leave not hundreds but billions of dollars on the table annually?

• "Illegal Rescission" is Oxymoron

  By Barry Zalma  |  September 30, 2010

  Barry Zalma writes that a lawsuit attempts to change California statutory and common law

• Who's At Risk For FLSA Suits?

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 18, 2010

  Walmart may be the most frequent defendant named in wage-and-hour lawsuits, but insurers and pharmaceutical companies are also caught up in a maze of rules they didn't know applied to certain subsets of their workforce, experts say.

• The Rising Tide of EPLI

  By Marla Donovan  |  May 5, 2010

  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced this past January that in 2009, more than 93,000 workplace discrimination charges were filed with the federal agency nationwide.

• Construction Defects and CGL Coverage

  By David D. Thamann  |  May 1, 2010

  When cold and snowy winter weather finally blows itself out, and warm weather brings the beginning of more construction projects, claims against contractors for construction defects are bound to arise.