The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has named Sabrina Stroud as the Division Chief for the organization’s Enterprise Strategy and Performance Division. She will begin her new role at CalPERS on August 19, 2013. Stroud brings with her nearly 10 years of State of California management experience. She currently Read more
Department of Insurance (DOI) licensees are often surprised to learn that their seemingly-personal-and-unrelated-to-their-profession criminal matter, is in fact one upon which they can get dinged for license discipline. Often, they just do not believe that their conviction was related to their profession. For example, what does a disturbing the peace Read more
Senate Bill 304, the California Medical Board sunset legislation, was meant to be the vehicle for broad reform of the doctor discipline system in California. Last minute amendments on August 12, 2013, eliminated a key enforcement reform that would have moved all staff investigating dangerous doctors into the Department of Read more
We often read or get passed articles and blog entries relevant to our profession of practicing law. Every once in a while, one of these articles is worthwhile to link to and comment on. This morning, our office found the following entry from The Practice of Law Blog. It is Read more
As a leader in Professional Licensing Law, Health Care Law, and Malpractice Defense Law, most of our clients come to us with professional liability insurance. Professional liability insurance, which is also called Errors and Omissions insurance (E&O) or Malpractice insurance, is type of insurance which provides insurance coverage for liability Read more
Service by Notice and Acknowledgement of Receipt (Code Civ. Proc. § 415.30) is the recommended method of serving a summons on a known-to-be represented party or an unrepresented party who you believe to be amenable to such service. This then alleviates the need to track down the party and engage Read more
Since the reorganization of the state government in that went into effect on July 1, 2013, Governor Brown has made appointments to several bureaus within the new infrastructure: Under the new Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, Joanne Wenzel, 56, of Sacramento, was appointed Chief of the Bureau for Private Read more
Technological change is extremely rapid, often leaving the law (including legislators and judges) struggling to catch up. This divergence is evident with search and seizure issues, such as with cell phones. Traditionally, the “search incident to arrest” exception to warrantless searches (which are generally unconstitutional) was based on the fear that Read more
Many licensees with the Department of Insurance are unaware and surprised to find out that that failure to timely disclose all or part of your conviction(s) may be grounds for disciplinary action. Furthermore, these licensees are often shocked when they find out that they are required to timely disclose criminal Read more
In an excellent and timely piece on the militarization of our nation’s police – “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of control – Salon.com’s and HuffingtonPost.com’s Radley Balko (@radleybalko) highlight’s another alarming trend in the use of the police: But the mission creep Read more