The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued ten penalties on August 15, 2013 to California hospitals along with fines ranging from $50,000 to $100,000 per hospital and totaling $675,000. The following hospitals received penalties: Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Read more…
Workplace investigations are becoming a more and more regular task for Human Resource Departments for businesses, big and small. Yet, no matter how commonplace they have become, there is still an art to doing it correctly. First and foremost, it Read more…
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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 Read more…