RPNA co-managing partner, Nick Roxborough, was honored by United Cerebral Palsy of Los Angeles at the 20th Annual UCP Golf Tournament on June 6. More than 300 people attended the tournament and gala dinner that followed, raising approximately $400,000 for the organization. As the former President of the Spastic Children’s Endowment Foundation, having served as…
For the first time since 2005, the United States Department of Labor has issued an updated regulation automatically extending overtime pay eligibility to 4.2 million “white collar” workers previously exempted from the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime pay requirements. The updated regulation is almost certain to swell payroll costs and increase wage and hour lawsuits.…
Sandquist v. Lebo Automotive Inc. may seem like a typical employment lawsuit. However, it involves a very significant issue that has now been taken up to the California Supreme Court for resolution. The issue is who determines whether a class claim may be brought and heard before an arbitrator—the court or the arbitrator itself —when…
RPNA attorneys Nicholas Roxborough, Joseph Gjonola and Ryan Salsig won a victory for California workers’ comp policyholders with the recent court decision stating Applied Underwriters, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, can’t enforce the arbitration provision in side agreements that were not filed with the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau (WCIRB). What makes this March 16…
A U.S District judge has denied motions filed by State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) and EK Health Services Inc. to dismiss conspiracy, trade libel and RICO claims against them, allowing Electronic Waveform Lab to proceed with its civil complaint, according to plaintiff attorney Nicholas Roxborough of Los Angeles based law firm Roxborough, Pomerance, Nye & Adreani LLP (RPNA). “Now, neither State Fund nor EK Health can…
Tech incubators abound these days, especially in and around Silicon Beach. These ‘technology campuses’ allow start ups to collaborate and share ideas, strategies, resources, and knowledge. And sometimes, proprietary information. When discussing their ideas with others, entrepreneurs need to be extremely mindful of the risks to their intellectual property. For many start ups, trade secrets…
Throughout 2015, the legislature passed a number of laws that have now taken effect in the new year, and which will affect the employer-employee relationship. Below is a brief summary of some of the more important laws, and how they may impact you as an employer. The Fair Pay Act, SB 358, amended Labor Code…
Workers’ Comp Executive featured RPNA’s recent win for 63 farm labor contractors, ensuring they can continue to self-insure their workers’ compensation. The article highlights how this final DIR decision ends a year-long fight which began when OSIP moved to “revoke the companies’ certificates to self-insure claiming it was required to so under the terms of…
Los Angeles employers’ rights firm Roxborough, Pomerance, Nye & Adreani, LLP announced today that Nicholas Roxborough and Ryan Salsig secured a win for their clients in a case against the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and the Office of Self Insurance Plans (OSIP), who had sought to revoke the certificates of consent to self-insure…
Workers’ Comp Executive recently studied the issue of whether or not the Division of Workers’ Compensation is biased against RPNA client Electronic Waveform Labs, maker of the H-Wave electronic stimulation device. According to the article, the dispute stems from the proposed update of the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule’s chronic pain guidelines and the development of…