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After tabling the rules last year during the state budget crisis, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law on June 29, 2009 the Electronic Discovery Act (the "Act"), which amends the California Code of Civil Procedure to address discovery of electronically stored information ("ESI").

This is part one of a two-part series looking at how court decisions in recent years have thwarted general contractors' reasonable expectation of coverage under their general liability policies.

The district court had ruled the settlement agreement inadmissible for failure to use the magic words required by the California Evidence Code.

Recent corporate guilty pleas can be expected to have serious implications for the individual executives and employees alleged to have been involved in the conduct under scrutiny.

With the new year comes a host of changes to laws impacting the construction industry in California.

It’s a typical day. A venture capitalist wants to buy a farm, grow some grapes, and maybe sell some wine.

These are tough times in the hotel business. The recession has squeezed room rates and net operating income.

The California Court of Appeal recently held in, State Farm General Insurance Co. v. Frake, that the term "accident" applies to the unintended acts of the insured, but not to the unintended consequences of the insured’s intentional acts.

A recent decision by the California Court of Appeal for the Second District grappled with the concepts of "horizontal exhaustion" and "stacking" of policy limits in the context of an insured attempting to tap excess policies in a case involving continuous losses spanning multiple policy periods.

In his first legislative season, California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law 22 employment-related bills.

The author examines recent cases holding that e-mail communications with an attorney or spouse were not privileged because they were sent from a work-issued computer or e-mail account and also examines the prior law addressing these issues.

Folklore sometimes develops regarding a particular insurance issue, to the point where the actual policy wording is ignored or forgotten.

California applies its strict product liability laws to all products put into the stream of commerce and sold to the public, and those laws govern a wide array of products.

The Federal Circuit’s 2004 opinion in Madey v. Duke ("Madey") brought a spotlight to the continuing viability of the common law research exemption from patent infringement, a seldom-seen fixture of judge-made law for nearly 200 years.

On January 5, 2009, the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, issued an important new decision regarding the "stacking" of policy limits: State of California v. Continental Insurance Company, No. E041425 (Super. Ct. No. 239784).

The 2008 legislative session was awash in bills changing the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act.

Was that retail ‘bargain' you received really a bargain?" That is the question being asked by a recent spate of lawsuits filed against prominent retailers.