To ensure compliance with current California and Federal law and to benefit from recent court decisions, it is time for employers to review and update their employee arbitration agreements. Employers ...

Pursuant to federal appellate law, the timely filing of a petition for rehearing postpones the issuance of the mandate until disposition of the petition. In effect, this means that until the 9 th ...

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) on Dec. 19 adopted two final rules establishing new “rate reasonableness procedures” it says “provide two streamlined approaches for shippers and railroads to ...

A spate of recent battles over arbitration agreements may force courts and lawmakers to once again tackle who can enter one on behalf of a nursing home resident — and whether they can ever be mandated ...

A Florida appeals court has upheld a law that caps noneconomic damages at $350,000 in medical malpractice cases when a voluntary arbitration offer is rejected. The state’s Third District Court of ...

As we all know, courts throughout Florida have halted in-person jury trials for almost all of 2020 due to COVID-19. Unfortunately, despite the prospect of a vaccine being widely distributed and ...

This study empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than do third-party imposed resolutions, such as arbitrator decisions ...

The Economic Policy Institute estimates that about two-thirds of California employers require their employees to arbitrate employment-related disputes, giving up the right to submit those claims to a ...

Collective bargaining consists of negotiations between an employer and a group of employees that determine the conditions of employment. The result of collective bargaining procedure is called the ...