Appellate Decisions and Review

Appellate Reports

Bad-faith failure to settle examined based on contract law principle; also, COVID business interruption coverage

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2022 January

Appellate Reports

In Adolph, California Supreme Court declines to follow High Court on arbitration of PAGA actions

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2023 September

Appellate Reports

Legal malpractice complaints and the statute of limitations; also, WC as exclusive remedy for school volunteers

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2023 November

Medical-expense damages and the collateral-source rule/Medicare; also, handwritten vs. electronic signatures on arbitration agreements, and scam ads on Facebook, binding arbitration agreements and wrongful-death heirs

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2024 July

Appellate Reports

Privette and its applicability to indirect owner of hirer. Also, sports and assumption of the risk; “headless” PAGA claims; dangers alongside high-speed roadways

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2025 February

Appellate Report

U.S. Supreme Court holds that Iskanian’s rule that PAGA actions cannot be divided into individual and non-individual claims is preempted by the FAA

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2022 July

Appellate Reports

Supreme court rules governmental design immunity for dangerous roads does not categorically preclude failure-to-warn claims; also, public liability for dangerous sidewalks

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2023 June

Appellate Reports

Cal Supreme court rules on an employer’s agent’s liability in FEHA cases; also, products liability claims based on absence of a safety feature that would have prevented the accident

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2023 October

Appellate Reports

Relief from waiver of jury trial; also Labor Code and pay stubs, hotels and premises liability

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2024 June

Appellate Reports

After State Farm denies homeowner’s claim, contract and bad-faith suit is barred by statute of limitations, but suit for unfair business practice under UCL can go forward

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2024 October

Appellate Reports

Insurance coverage for cleaning-up smoke and debris when premises do not burn; also, head injury in football and assumption of the risk doctrine

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2025 March

Appellate Report

Courts look at expert concessions on causation; also personal jurisdiction

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2022 August