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In Schultz v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, determined that the claimant was entitled to workers' compensation benefits for injuries he sustained while driving to work in his personal vehicle.Courts generally apply the "going-and-coming rule" to prohibit compensation to employees while driving their personal vehicles to and from an employer's premises except where... Read More

  Greg Bentley represents a veteran planning to file a lawsuit filed Thursday after he said an e-cigarette purchased at a Lancaster store exploded, causing him to suffer burns on his face and neck, and to become scarred.Kacey Montoya reports from Beverly Hills for the KTLA 5 News at 3 on Thursday, January 28, 2016.Learn More Read More

Greg Bentley helps the Grupppioni family find justice by putting away Nathan Campbell. On August 3, 2013 Nathan Campbell, the driver, was convicted of second-degree murder in a Venice Boardwalk hit-and-run accident that killed Alice Gruppioni, an Italian women, on her honeymoon and injured more than a dozen people. Read More

The odd thing about death in the workplace is the selective nature of the news coverage. When some California workers die in the line of duty, they may be hailed as heroes. When an electrician is killed or a roofer dies after a fall, they rarely receive a one-sentence statement in the paper or on the evening TV news. Yet their family mourns their death just as sincerely and they struggle to come to terms with the emotional and financial l... Read More

In 2014, 334 people lost their lives due to a workplace accident in California. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the most common causes of those incidents included transportation accidents, slips or falls, and violence by other people or animals.Many more people in California suffered a workplace injury that left them unable to work for a certain period of time. It is important for employees to understand the workers' compensation be... Read More

SANTA ANA, CALIF. — An Orange County, California, jury awarded $10,000,000 (ten million) in a wrongful death case against the Capistrano Unified School District ("Capistrano") for the 2011 death of 3-year-old Kevin Cisler who died on a bus ride home from school as a result of Capistrano employees' negligence. Kevin's parents, Melissa and Daniel Cisler, were represented by Brian Panish and Tom Schultz of Panish Shea & Boyle LLP, and Keith... Read More