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Aug 26, 2024 | 
propertycasualty360.com | Cheryl Miller |Elana Ashanti Jefferson |Joe Toppe |Brittney Meredith-Miller
(Photo: Kalyakan/AdobeStock) Last week, details of a new deal to rewrite California's lemon law between plaintiffs attorneys and General Motors emerged, revealing efforts to limit high-end litigation costs and avoiding a broader tort war.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
propertycasualty360.com | Joe Toppe |Cheryl Miller |Joe Dysart
Natural disasters are the fifth most common cause of bankruptcies in the U.S. (Credit: cherylvb/Adobe Stock) Many people across U.S. now find themselves recovering from a series of intense summer weather events.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
propertycasualty360.com | Cheryl Miller |Joe Dysart |Elana Ashanti Jefferson
Credit: gumpapa/Adobe Stock Owners of a San Francisco restaurant had no reason to expect their insurance to pay for pandemic-related losses even though their policy included coverage for virus-caused damages, California's Supreme Court unanimously held Thursday.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
propertycasualty360.com | Cheryl Miller |Joe Dysart |Elana Ashanti Jefferson
Unexpected events causing home damage leave many insureds in an unfamiliar situation, needing to pack, store and restore their personal belongings. A contents restoration company often handles these tasks, but if a solid process isn't in place, claims closures can be delayed. "Inventory is everything, especially with contents restoration," says David Gavilanes, regional business coach at Blue Kangaroo Packoutz. "We're working to salvage people's personal belongings and remove contents.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Jimmy Hoover |Sulaiman Abdur Rahman |Cheryl Miller
The U.S. Supreme Court handed a win to Starbucks on Thursday in a labor case involving seven fired baristas who had been engaged in a campaign to unionize their coffee shop in Memphis, Tennessee. In an 8-1 vote, the high court vacated a recent court of appeals ruling upholding a temporary injunction against the national coffee chain over alleged labor law violations.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Amanda Bronstad |Chris O'Malley |Cheryl Miller |Maydeen Merino
Biden will nominate Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Kay Costello for an Eastern District of Pennsylvania judgeship. He also plans to nominate Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Margarete Provinzino for a Minnesota federal judgeship and California Superior Court Judge Noël Wise for a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California judgeship, the White House announced Wednesday.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Chris O'Malley |Cheryl Miller |Mason Lawlor
Fabletics was hit with a consumer class action in Los Angeles County Superior Court for allegedly misleading its customers about the actual value of its VIP Membership Program, auto-renewal and gift cards, under specific state codes outlining requirements for automatic renewals. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in federal and state courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Alexander Lugo |Abigail Adcox |Sulaiman Abdur Rahman |Cheryl Miller
Litigation between the Napoli Shkolnik law firm and a former partner it accused of “quiet quitting” came to a discreet end Wednesday, with both parties stipulating to discontinue the action with prejudice. Additional details of the resolution between the firm and attorney Heather Palmore were not immediately clear from public court filings. Want to continue reading?
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May 28, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Cheryl Miller |Chris O'Malley |Avalon Zoppo |Maydeen Merino
California is leading a coalition of 22 Democratic states and the District of Columbia to defend in court the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule setting stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles.
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May 23, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Brian Lee |Jimmy Hoover |Cheryl Miller
A conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overruled a lower court decision that a newly drawn South Carolina congressional map advantaging Republicans was an unconstitutional “racial gerrymander” that diluted the power of Black voters, triggering a fiery dissent from the court’s liberal wing. In it 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court said a three-judge panel had committed “clear error” in concluding that GOP Rep.
