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The Texas Supreme Court recently increased policyholders’ influence over an insurer’s right to settle a third-party claim for less than policy limits. Insurers have long enjoyed a nearly absolute right to settle claims,...
More than a year after COVID-19 was deemed a pandemic, employers are transitioning greater numbers of employees back to the workplace. As organizations return their workforce to the office, it is important to have the right...
April 28, 2021
Ninth Circuit Joins California Court of Appeal in Rejecting FAAAA Preemption of AB 5 as Applied to Motor Carriers
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held today that the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994 (“FAAAA”) does not preempt application of California’s Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), codified as amended...
On April 16, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 93 into law. The bill requires employers in specified hospitality and business services-related industries to offer to rehire certain workers who were laid off during the...
Clark v. Superior Court., No. D077711, 2021 WL 1050057 (Cal. Ct. App. Mar. 19, 2021) Summary: Employee exhausted her administrative remedies despite failing to identify her employer’s proper legal name in her DFEH...
One year after COVID caused companies to send droves of employees home to work remotely, how well did those employees do at protecting their clients’ and their company’s confidential information and what can they do...
The Supreme Court’s Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid decision finally settled the confusion over what equipment constitutes an automatic telephone dialing system (a robodialer) that can violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act...
The Texas Supreme Court has accepted certified questions from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to clarify Texas’s eight-corners rule for determining the existence of a duty to defend. In Bitco Gen. Ins. Corp. v. Monroe...
On March 19, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 95, thereby expanding California’s COVID supplemental paid sick leave provisions (“COVID leave”). California’s prior supplemental paid sick leave...
March 17, 2021
COVID Insurance Coverage One Year Later – Herd Immunity for Insurers or is Coverage Spreading for Policyholders?
One year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic ground the world to a halt, our firm’s virtual offices were inundated with calls from policyholders, asking if their current and projected losses due to the pandemic would be covered...
The Nevada Supreme Court held that insurers may seek reimbursement of defense costs if a court determines that it owed no duty to defend and the insurer reserved reimbursement rights. In Nautilus Insurance Company v. Access...
A recent case in the Northern District of California presents a reminder that hospital systems need to consider antitrust issues when negotiating multi-hospital contracts with health plans. Unfortunately, even when hospitals...