2025 October

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Articles in this issue:

Pretrial settlements and their impact on your verdict

Calculating and reducing setoffs in personal-injury and medical-malpractice cases

Benjamin Ikuta

2025 October


E-scooters and e-bikes: Liability in the e-mobility era

Thinking beyond the accident scene to find responsible parties and theories of liability

James Perry

2025 October


Swipe up for discovery

The new rules of social evidence, where one viral image can gut your claim

Owili K. Eison

2025 October


Mediating wage-and-hour claims

Mediating wage-and-hour claims

A look at mediation of the most commonly litigated claims

Deborah Crandall Saxe

2025 October


Tax treatment of settlements reached when the case is on appeal

A look at cases that settle after a verdict, either with punitive damages or on which interest is running, with special attention to taxes on the legal fees paid

Robert W. Wood

2025 October


Beyond life

From Apple Watches and Fitbits to Oura Rings, the role of wearable health metrics in survival actions and other PI litigation

Siran Keosian

2025 October


Redacted! Sorry, but I’d like the names, please

Redacted! Sorry, but I’d like the names, please

Using Paniagua to discover the names and contact information for witnesses listed in traffic-collision reports of similar prior incidents

Lucas A. Whitehill

2025 October


Appellate Briefs

MICRA and claims based on generally applicable duties of care, as opposed to “professional negligence”

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

2025 October


Into the weeds of Prop 213

Understanding the nuances of establishing financial responsibility

Nicholas W. Yoka

2025 October


Nursing homes: Health & Safety Code § 1430, subdivision (b)

Nursing homes: Health & Safety Code § 1430, subdivision (b)

An overlooked statute that can drive your case, and it comes with attorney’s fees

Redmond Walton

2025 October


“Fall in” with TLC

From golf tournaments to the Great Tryke Giveaway, Fall is a great time to give back to our communities

Megan E. Klein
Michelle M. West

2025 October


Advocating for safety

Many corporations market products that are unsafe, improperly tested, or based on false data; also, ending forced consumer arbitration

Linda A. Lipsen

2025 October


What did – and didn’t – happen during the 2025 legislative session

The rights of childhood sexual abuse survivors were under attack in 2025; also – an important deadline on survival actions

Nancy Peverini

2025 October


The battle that never ends

Newly elected CAALA and CAOC officers will lead us forward against “tort reform”

Martin I. Aarons

2025 October

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