Summary by Rebecca B. Aherne, Esq.
On December 30, 2009, the Second Appellate District filed its opinion in Baker v. National Interstate Insurance Company, holding that damages awarded the family of a bus driver as a result of negligent inspection of the bus were not recoverable under a policy which contained a products-completed operations hazard [...]
By Rachel Hulst
As a woman, young mom and employment lawyer, I’ve never been more popular amongst my friends. These are friends who, until recently, knew nothing about what I actually did for work. Yes, they knew I was an attorney. But that knowledge was only accompanied by a few lawyer jokes and the age [...]
On December 30, 2009, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, affirmed an award of Summary Judgment we obtained for our client in 2008. On appeal, in Hunter v. Rite Aid (Case No. E047552 — not cited for publication), the Court agreed with the trial court that since Plaintiff admitted [...]
On December 24, 2009, the Nevada Supreme Court, in a case of first impression, held that pharmacies do not have a duty to unknown third parties injured by the pharmacy’s patients. In Sanchez v. Wal-Mart (125 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 60, 2009), the Court confronted a significant issue for pharmacies.
In this [...]
Summary by Rebecca B. Aherne, Esq.
On November 23, 2009, the Fourth Appellate District filed its opinion in Howell v. Hamilton Meats & Provisions, Inc., holding that under the collateral source rule the plaintiff was entitled to recover the full amount of billed medical expenses without reduction for the amount not incurred because of the [...]
On October 21, 2009, in Obiajulu v. Rite Aid (before the United States District Court, District of Nevada), we successfully obtained summary judgment against a plaintiff suing for various forms of discrimination and retaliation. In that case, the Court agreed with our arguments that plaintiff had not established any triable issues of material fact sufficient [...]
Jonathan Allan Klein and Annmarie Liermann, and their co-authors, won the distinguished G. Duffield Smith Outstanding Publication Award for their 2008 article – “Making the Possible Impossible: Medicare Reimbursement Problems”, which was published in the February 2008 edition of For The Defense. This award, given annually by DRI, was formally presented at DRI’s October 2009 [...]
Kelly, Hockel & Klein, P.C., relocated its office in November, 2009. In preparing for the move, KH&K realized that it would have several items of office furniture and equipment that would no longer be needed in its new space. After researching different donation and reuse options, KH&K successfully donated all of its items for donation [...]
Jonathan Allan Klein was selected as a Northern California “Super Lawyers” by San Francisco magazine in each of its 2005-2008 editions.
On behalf of Safeway, Jonathan Allan Klein and Annmarie Liermann recently obtained an Order sustaining a Demurrer filed on Safeway’s behalf in a Trazodone case filed in Alameda County, California.
