SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - A California nursing home operator deserved more than $50,000 in sanctions for repeatedly missing deadlines to turn over evidence in an elder abuse lawsuit, an appeals court has ruled.
Two California court rulings chipped away at legal claims by Grubhub and Lyft that former drivers for the companies were contractors and not employees.
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A man who developed gangrene and had to have his foot amputated waited too long to sue a California county for medical malpractice, an appeals court ruled, rejecting the plaintiff’s argument he only discovered he had a potential claim after visiting the Mexican consulate on another matter months after his foot was cut off.
SAN FRANCISCO (Legal Newsline) - The makers of generic Zantac can't be sued under California's Prop 65, which requires cancer warning labels on products that contain ingredients the State has decided could be carcinogenic.
VENTURA, Calif. (Legal Newsline) - A California skilled nursing facility will have to fight a wrongful death lawsuit, as a state appeals court has found the patient lacked the capacity to enter into an arbitration agreement.