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Category: Business and Real Estate

  • Product liability scenario continues to play out for General Motors

    For obvious reasons, the largest car manufacturing company in the United States is doing everything it reasonably can to stay ahead of a potential tidal wave of litigation that is imminently heading its way and the attendant liability of massive proportions it could trigger. Notwithstanding that effort, though, a recent national news report indicated that,…

  • Mediation resolves large, growing government/bus operator dispute

    It was obviously important that the contractual dispute between a Southern California municipal transportation entity and a bus company providing riding services to approximately 800,000 customers each day get resolved, and in an optimal manner. Seemingly, it did, with the Ventura County Transportation Commission (VCTA) and Roadrunner Management Services recently coming to terms that resolve…

  • Defective products, safety recalls: 2016 denoted as singular year

    Here are a couple quick and obvious realities related to manufactured products that are made available to consumers through the market mainstream. First, and notwithstanding the efforts of product designers, makers, wholesalers, retailers and other parties to ensure safety, problematic features do occasionally surface with some goods and merchandise. As a result, safety recalls are…

  • Was the job done? Well, what does the contract say, provide for?

    This could get ugly. Well, uglier, actually, given that it is already unquestionably contentious and, given the recent filing of a civil lawsuit for contractual breach, distinctly trending in a direction away from amicability and quick resolution. Here’s what is the uppercase rub for officials from New York City, which has just sued telecommunications giant Verizon…

  • Was the job done? Well, what does the contract say, provide for?

    This could get ugly. Well, uglier, actually, given that it is already unquestionably contentious and, given the recent filing of a civil lawsuit for contractual breach, distinctly trending in a direction away from amicability and quick resolution. Here’s what is the uppercase rub for officials from New York City, which has just sued telecommunications giant Verizon…

  • Health care principal seeking to buy or sell? Read this.

    If you’re a business owner in an acquisition stage or, alternatively, contemplating a company sale, there is certainly a lot to think about. The direction your industry is trending in — if that is discernible through close analysis of relevant variables and factors — is something you’re certainly looking at. Is your business in an…

  • Whiffs of tax reform: implications for entity formation

    A business writer refers in a recent article to the “crucial decision” that business owners must timely make regarding the form that their enterprise will assume. Indeed, that is a vitally important consideration, since it will affect virtually every key aspect of business viability and operations both immediately and over the long term. At the…

  • Whiffs of tax reform: implications for entity formation

    A business writer refers in a recent article to the “crucial decision” that business owners must timely make regarding the form that their enterprise will assume. Indeed, that is a vitally important consideration, since it will affect virtually every key aspect of business viability and operations both immediately and over the long term. At the…

  • California insurers facing unwanted regulatory scrutiny

    Does it owe to purposeful bad-faith actions or, rather, the simple inability to conduct proper oversight and maintain accurate records? Either way, says the director of California’s Department of Managed Health Care, it’s “a mess.” “It” is the findings in a recently concluded state report that are, by any measuring stick, truly dismal. The data…

  • Business regulation: a stressed focus of the new administration

    Compliance. And, again, compliance. Regardless of where they stand on positions regarding business regulation in the United States, company owners and entrepreneurs in California and across the country uniformly come together in agreement on this one point: Their businesses routinely deal with rules and regulations of all sorts, with the requirements imposed on their enterprises…

  • Choosing a business form may also impact employment obligations

    The choice of business entity can have far-reaching implications. In addition to affecting how a business might be taxed or whether owners might be subject to personal liability, a business form also impacts employment benefit obligations. Previously, California law did not require partners to pay separate workers’ compensation premiums. Instead of taking out separate insurance…