Two employers agreed that the general employer would
obtain workers’ compensation insurance for employees it leased
to the special employer.1
Relying on this agreement, the special
employer obtained workers’ compensation insurance for its own
employees with a “limiting endorsement” excluding coverage for
special employees. These agreements were in place for several
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Cynthia Huerta, Maria De Jesus Gonzalez and Andres Gonzalez are the
parents of three girls who were tragically killed on Halloween night in 2014 when they
were struck by a speeding motorist while they were crossing the street in a marked
crosswalk. The driver fled the scene. He was later arrested and pleaded guilty to felony
vehicular manslaughter.
Huerta and the Gonzalezes sue... More...   $0 (08-26-2019 - CA)

Code of Civil Procedure section 9981
creates an incentive
for settlement. It authorizes an award of costs to a party that
makes a pretrial settlement offer when the opponent rejects the
offer and obtains a lesser result at trial. (Martinez v. Brownco
Construction Co. (2013) 56 Cal.4th 1014, 1019.) In 1997, the
Legislature amended the statute to make the same incentive
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