RPNA’s camaraderie and winning culture was the focus of a feature article recently profiled in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, California’s largest legal news provider. The article talks about the early stages of RPNA, which was built upon the foundation of friendship and earned a reputation for handling complex issues employers face with their insurance providers.
The Department of Industrial Relations’ (DIR) new criteria for determining who can serve as a QME without going through due process is the center of a new controversy and complaint against the DIR and its director, Christine Baker. Employers rights attorney Nicholas Roxborough filed the suit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf…
The issue of Applied Underwriters’ ‘bait and switch’ marketing tactics to sell its workers’ compensation product was the focus of a recent San Fernando Valley Business Journal Article. The article highlighted RPNA’s case against the Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary (Luxor Cabs v. Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company) as well as a similar case (Shasta Linen…
Drew Pomerance was named by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals as one of the top labor & employment lawyers in California. More than 175 lawyers, judges, and in-house counsel from around the state attended the special reception held at The Montage in Beverly Hills on July 18 to honor those selected for…
Co-Managing Partner Nick Roxborough and co-counsel Jeffrey D. Farrow of Michelman & Robinson, recently won a motion to disqualify Nixon Peabody LLP from representing a plaintiff in an ongoing worker’s compensation dispute after the firm hired opposing defense counsel in the case. The decision, which was made by a Superior Court Judge in Orange County…
RPNA’s $89 million judgment in a landmark class action employment suit was highlighted in the February 6, 2017 issue of San Fernando Valley Business Journal. The article discusses the impact of the 5-2 decision—which was argued in front of the California Supreme Court by RPNA partners Drew Pomerance and Michael Adreani—on how California employers approach meal and rest breaks. Specifically, it clarifies and sets…
It was a chance meeting at a UC Berkeley dorm forty years ago that eventually led partners Nick Roxborough and Drew Pomerance to establish their own law firm, what is known today as Roxborough, Pomerance, Nye & Adreani LLP (RPNA). Few law firms are founded on friendships and fewer sustain a solid forty-year relationship. It was for this reason,…
When it comes to cases against Applied Underwriters, RPNA’s Nick Roxborough is the go-to expert for commentary. Workers’ Comp Executive reached out to Nick regarding the most recent lawsuit against Berkshire Hathaway’s subsidiary filed in New York. The plaintiff is seeking a $6 million bond and at least $18 million in trebled damages. According to…
Workers’ Comp Executive recently reached out to Nicholas Roxborough to comment on the new cease and desist order signed by California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, barring Applied Underwriters from selling its EquityComp program in California. Roxborough told Workers’ Comp Executive that, “the Order provides additional evidence that Applied has engaged in wrongdoing. It provides exquisite foundational evidence for existing lawsuits,…
In a recent Workers’ Comp Executive article, RPNA co-managing partner Nick Roxborough was asked to comment on California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ decision regarding Applied Underwriters’ EquityComp Program. Roxborough said he wouldn’t be surprised if Applied Underwriters’ certificate is eventually pulled stating that the decision “effectively kills the program in California as it exists now.” The RPA (reinsurance participation…