The California Court of Appeals recently issued a ruling in what would ordinarily be considered a workers’ compensation case but for a personal injury exception regarding power presses. In the case, Gonzalez v. Seal Methods, Inc., 223 Cal. App. 4th 405 (2014), the plaintiff was working for the defendant company in the…
In a recent products liability/workplace injury case, Elsheref v. Applied Materials, Inc., 223 Cal. App. 4th 451 (2014), the California Court of Appeals had before it an appeal from a lower court’s decision regarding the liability of an employer for the injuries reportedly suffered as birth defects in an employee’s son.…
In a recent Supreme Court of California decision, Rashidi v. Moser, 339 P. 3d 344, the court had before it a medical malpractice case involving three separate defendants: a doctor, a hospital, and a medical product manufacturer. According to the complaint, the plaintiff underwent surgery following a severe nosebleed. During the…
In a recent California Court of Appeals case, Maiello v. LA Digital Post, Cal. Ct. App. (2015), the court heard the appeal from the granting of summary judgment stemming from a car accident case. On the day of the alleged incident, the plaintiff was involved in a car accident with an…
A recent case before the California Court of Appeals, Ellis v. Mercury Ins. Co., Cal. Ct. App. (2015), dealt with a situation in which a woman was involved in an automobile accident. Following the accident, the woman, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, had her car insurance company, the defendant,…
A recent California Court of Appeals decision dealt with the issue of whether or not a trucking insurance policy precluded recovery for a driver who was injured during an on-duty accident. In the case, Global Hawk Ins. Co. v. Le, 225 Cal.App.4th 593 (2014), a driver was sleeping in the truck when…
In a recent pedestrian accident case, Killings-Rodriguez v. City of Los Angeles, Cal. Ct. App. (2015), the California Court of Appeals issued a decision regarding the appeal from a summary judgment motion in a case that alleged a certain intersection was dangerously unsafe. In the case, two girls were crossing the…
In a recent California Court of Appeals opinion, Hoffman v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Cal. Ct. App (2014), the court decided the issue of the properness of the lower court’s decision to strike an expert witness declaration in a medical malpractice case, which accompanied a motion for summary judgment on…
The California Court of Appeals rendered an interesting decision in a recent case, Mata v. Pacific Gas & Electric Co., 224 Cal. App. 4th 309 (2014), regarding the potential liability of a utilities company on the theory of premises liability for allegedly negligently failing to trim trees near power lines adequately. In the…
In a recent California Court of Appeals decision, Trapasso v. Romero, Cal. Ct. App. (2014), the court had to rule on the issue of alleged jury misconduct according to allegations the plaintiff made that jurors engaged in misconduct by making calculations related to potential speed as related to a motorcycle and truck…