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Most Common Types of Workers’ Compensation Claims

Employees in California file worker’s compensation claims for a wide variety of reasons. The injuries listed on workers comp claims generate claims pay out different types of benefits. Getting familiar with the worker’s compensation system in California starts by understanding...

May 11, 2021

How and When to File a Workers’ Comp Claim in California

Workers' Compensation

How and When to File a Workers’ Comp Claim in California

If you suffered a work-related illness or injury in California, the legal guidelines written into the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act might qualify you for financial benefits. California law requires employers of all sizes to compensate employees for the expenses associated...

May 11, 2021

Workers' Compensation

Choosing the Best Workers’ Compensation Attorney

It is bad enough to deal with a work-related injury that has forced you off the job. However, things take a turn for the worse when your employer violates one or more provisions of California’s worker compensation statutes. If your...

May 11, 2021

After a Workplace Injury: Working for your Employer Again

Workers' Compensation

After a Workplace Injury: Working for your Employer Again

You could never shake the nagging thought. Weeks on the mend from a workplace injury left you feeling incredibly frustrated and unfortunately, poorer for the experience. Rapidly piling up medical bills left you in a deep financial hole because you...

May 11, 2021

Medical Malpractice

Not on the Mend: Surgical Errors and Medical Malpractice

Making fun of surgeons on television is about as much as an American pastime as baseball and apple pie. Some of the jokes poke fun at actors playing surgeons that close a wound with a medical device or instrument inside...

May 5, 2021

Medical Malpractice

Medical Malpractice in California: What You Need to Prove

They say the proof is in the pudding, but for medical malpractice cases, proof might as well be inside a magician’s hat. Here one minute, gone the next. Medical negligence lawsuits are notoriously hard to win because the plaintiff must...

May 5, 2021

Medical Malpractice

Medical Malpractice: Types of Diagnostic Errors

Medical malpractice does not always happen in an emergency room, on an operating table, or at a rehabilitation center. Negligence can occur during diagnostic tests. Before a healthcare provider takes care of a patient, the healthcare provider might have already...

May 5, 2021

Medical Malpractice

How to Choose the Right Medical Malpractice Attorney

You don’t have to be a gambler to know that casinos have the odds stacked in their favor. Whether it’s a hand in blackjack or several turns of a slot machine, casinos rake in the cash because they have the...

May 5, 2021

Medical Malpractice

6 Tips for Handling a Medical Malpractice Case

Recent studies indicate around 250,000 Americans die each year because of a preventable error committed by a healthcare provider. The staggering number makes medical malpractice the third leading cause of death in the United States behind cancer and heart disease....

May 5, 2021

Know Your Rights: The Fair Labor Standards Act

Employment Wage and Hour

Know Your Rights: The Fair Labor Standards Act

Considered the last legal brick that formed the foundation of The New Deal, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA) passed into law in 1938 at the height of The Great Depression. The United States Congress enacted the FLSA at a...

May 5, 2021

Exemptions for California Wage and Hour Laws

Employment Wage and Hour

Exemptions for California Wage and Hour Laws

California employment laws require most employers to play by the same rules when it comes to things such as overtime, minimum wage, and compensating for meal breaks. However, California employment law has made a few job classifications exempt from receiving...

May 5, 2021

How to Prepare for a Wage and Hour Claim

Employment Wage and Hour

How to Prepare for a Wage and Hour Claim

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”-Ben Franklin It has served countless business and military leaders well. Coaches from Bill Belichick to Mike Krzyzewski have gained considerable success following its principles. Even a once-thriving scouting organization based its...

May 5, 2021