Dear Clients and Friends, Greetings from Los Angeles and Las Vegas. We recently received a docket report on a new matter from the court in downtown LA, showing a trial date in 2022. Accordingly, we can all expect that trials, at least on new filings, will likely be in 2022 [...]

Dear Clients and Colleagues, Below is important information recently sent by the Los Angeles Superior Court regarding the trials and other court services in light of the current public health crisis, which may impact pending claims and litigation you are handling and/or your team is as well. The Court’s order [...]

Dear Clients and Colleagues, With much of the country now under “stay-at-home” or similar orders in response to the spread of COVID-19, businesses deemed “non-essential” have been forced to close. In response, those “non-essential” businesses are preemptively filing suit against their commercial insurers for business income or business interruption losses. Indeed, even [...]

Dear Clients and Colleagues, We write to inform you regarding the Executive Order issued by Governor Newsom on March 27, 2020 relating to the Rules of Court and the procedures of the Court as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In general, Governor Newsom’s order allows the Judicial Council to more [...]

A.      Summary  In late 2019, a California appellate court ruled in a published decision, Southern California Pizza Co., LLC v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, 40 Cal. App. 5th 140 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019), that a wage-and-hour exclusion in an Employment Practices Liability Insurance ("EPLI") policy did not bar defense coverage for [...]