Excerpt: ...apers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration or brief that simply asserts the issues have been resolved. Counsel must disclose whether there are any other pending class action, individual, or PAGA lawsuits, whether filed with a...

Excerpt: ...f any revised papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration or brief that simply asserts the issues have been resolved. The motion fails to provide the class members' estimated low payment under the proposed settlement, informa...

Excerpt: ... rescind the annuities that form the basis of this lawsuit. However, the court in Major Clients Agency v. Diemer (1998) 67 Cal. App. 4th 1116, held that a claim for equitable indemnity must be based on a joint legal obligation to another for damages. 67 Cal. App. 4th at 1131. Here, if Daily improperly withheld the two letters, he could be liable to plaintiffs for malpractice, which is not a tort for which plaintiffs seek to hold these moving defe...

Excerpt: ...'s motion seems to request a blanket finding of privilege, as if every single communication between Peck and any of the 15 plaintiffs is privileged or subject to the joint defense doctrine. Presumably, Peck should inspect plaintiffs' privilege log, and perhaps the documents plaintiffs already produced, to attempt to establish good cause for a protective order. Defendants and plaintiffs must serve their papers on Peck by March 15, 2022, and Peck's...

Excerpt: ...'s and Cini-Little International, Inc.'s Requests for Judicial Notice are granted. When the corporate status of an insured has been suspended, the insurer has the right to intervene in the litigation against the insured to protect its interests. Garamendi v. Golden Eagle Ins. Co. (2004) 116 Cal. App. 4th 694, 709. The moving parties were insurers for defendant, cross-complainant and cross-defendant Rosser International, Inc., who has been suspend...

Excerpt: ... policy that should not have been sold to any investor because split- dollar agreements were no longer being recognized by the IRS as offering tax relief, that Johnston and NFP knew that selling such a policy was unsuitable for the Trust and inappropriate under industry standards, that NFP also knew that the Policy was inappropriate because Minnesota Life had previously refused to underwrite the Policy in 2014, that the sale of the Policy was for...

Excerpt: ...ayed pending completion of the arbitration. The Case Management Conference set for today is ordered off calendar. A Post-Arbitration Review Hearing is set for August 25, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. The parties must file a Joint Status Report at least a week before the hearing, and may request a continuance if arbitration is not yet complete. The court concludes that there exist valid agreements between plaintiff and defendants to arbitrate the individual c...

Excerpt: ...is denied. Defendant's responses are not code compliant. The requests mostly asked defendant to admit that a certain statement was made. Defendant's responses simply referenced some communications, without admitting or denying whether the requested statement was made. (Even though defendant “otherwise denied” all of the requests, this denial was legally insufficient in the context of the entire response.) Defendant failed to comply with the s...

Excerpt: ...blished that Faculty, Staff and Child Care Teacher Retirees have a vested right to be provided with District-funded benefits under the same medical plan as active employees, or that the District's Approved Policy Changes Effective July 1, 2022 are inconsistent with or breach any vested rights held by those Retirees. On August 9, 2021, the Board approved a health insurance plan to go into effect on July 1, 2022 that transitioned all Medicare eligi...

Excerpt: ...papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice. Plaintiffs Nichole Kec and Hopeton Dias have both brought this motion, and are both parties to the settlement agreement, yet plaintiffs seek an enhancement award only for plaintiff Nichole Kec, not for plaintiff Hopeton Dias. Plai...

Excerpt: ...s only parties whom the plaintiff sued. Parties are entitled to allege alternative claims for recovery, such as express indemnity and equitable indemnity, as well as declaratory relief. A cause of action is not uncertain just because a written agreement on which the claim is based might be uncertain. Defendant Manamed, Inc.'s Motion for Summary Adjudication as to Plaintiff Team Makena's Seventh Cause of Action for Misappropriation of Trade Secret...

Excerpt: ...uding the proposed letter to the aggrieved employees. The motion fails to provide the aggrieved employees' estimated individual recovery under the proposed settlement, including maximum, minimum and average workweeks, and estimated high, low and average payments to be paid to the aggrieved employees based on their workweeks, information that would enable the court to better evaluate the reasonableness of the settlement. The Settlement Agreement p...

Excerpt: ...papers, including the class notice. Counsel also should provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement and the class notice, rather than with just a supplemental declaration or brief simply asserting that the issues have been resolved. On May 18, 2021, the court signed the parties' proposed Order, based on the parties' stipulation, that the Flott and Ca...

Excerpt: ...Cleaning Services, Inc.'s Request for Judicial Notice is denied. All of plaintiff's individual claims are ordered to arbitration. Plaintiff's class claims are dismissed without prejudice. This action is ordered stayed pending completion of the arbitration. The Status Conference set for today is ordered off calendar. A Post-Arbitration Review Hearing is set for July 15, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. The parties must file a Joint Status Report at least a week ...

Excerpt: ...r policy and the life insurance policy at issue should be disregarded because plaintiffs fail to allege any facts as to how or by what method defendants allegedly participated, and to whom, how, and by what method the recommendation was made. This allegation, however, is legally sufficient, even if defendants question multiple people making one recommendation. Defendants may serve contention interrogatories to obtain more details. Defendants also...

Excerpt: ... 2019 WL 5078725. Under Del. Code §18-803(b), a limited liability company may prosecute or defend suits only until the time a certificate of cancellation is filed. However, under Del. Code §18-804(b)(3), an LLC that is dissolved is required to make provisions to be reasonably likely to cover compensation for claims that have not been made known to the LLC or arisen, but based on facts known to the LLC are likely to arise or become known within ...

Excerpt: ...for Judicial Notice is granted. NVSI's Request for Judicial Notice is granted. Eshelman's Objections to Evidence are sustained, except that Objection to Declaration of Ivan Stankevich #3 and Objection to Declaration of Alex Nelson #5 are overruled. The facts set forth in Eshelman's Separate Statement do not negate all of NVSI's allegations of wrongdoing against her. Many of the facts asserted to be undisputed are actually disputed. NVSI has prese...

Excerpt: ...hould provide the court with an explanation of how the pending issues were resolved, with references to any corrections to the settlement agreement, rather than with just a supplemental declaration simply asserting that the issues have been resolved. The moving papers do not include a copy of the PAGA letter that was sent to the LWDA on June 10, 2019. The court needs a copy of the letter to verify that the settlement terms are consistent with the...

Excerpt: ... Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Approval of PAGA Settlement and Final Judgment Thereon filed on March 9, 2018 defined aggrieved employees to include “any and all employees of Maruchan Inc., who performed work at any Maruchan facility in California during the time period running from April 14, 2014 through March 8, 2018”. Plaintiff alleges in paragraph 18 of her First Amended Complaint, “Plaintiff was hired in August 2015 and worked u...

Excerpt: ...ent on a motion to compel further responses to interrogatories, and Rule 3.1345(c) requires that the Separate Statement “provide all the information necessary to understand each discovery request and all the responses to it that are at issue”, “be full and complete so that no person is required to review any other document in order to determine the full request and the full response”, and “If the response to a particular discovery reque...

Excerpt: ...he court declines to rule on AIG Specialty Insurance Company's Objections to Evidence Submitted by Plaintiff in Opposition, on the ground that the objections are not material to the ruling on the motion. CCP §437c(q). Plaintiff's Request for Judicial Notice is granted. Defendant AIG contends that the main policy coverage provision at issue, Coverage A, does not provide coverage for the costs associated with the Fuel Line Claim and the PRL 354 Cl...

Excerpt: ...grant the motions, as Dirks proposes. Omar's initial briefs were one day late, and his reply briefs were ten days late, but there have been no objections. Kabran v. Sharp Memorial Hospital (2017) 2 Cal. 5th 330, 346. Dirks argues that Wardak was not a proper derivative plaintiff on behalf of WLOW because he no longer owned an interest in the LLC. The court in Favila v. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (2010) 188 Cal. App. 4th 189, 215, rejected such an...

Excerpt: ...r the oppositions, that would not mean the court would automatically grant the motions, as Dirks proposes. Omar's initial briefs were one day late, and his reply briefs were ten days late, but there have been no objections. Kabran v. Sharp Memorial Hospital (2017) 2 Cal. 5th 330, 346. Dirks argues that Wardak was not a proper derivative plaintiff on behalf of WLOW because he no longer owned an interest in the LLC. The court in Favila v. Katten Mu...

Excerpt: ...ration is not yet complete. The court concludes that there exists a valid agreement to arbitrate the claims asserted by plaintiff, the Dispute Resolution Policy (the “Agreement”), and that no grounds exist to bar enforcement of the Agreement. CCP §1281.2. The arbitration agreement waives class claims. Thus, case law provides for dismissal without prejudice of the class claims. Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (2018) 138 Sup. Ct. 1612; Stolt-Niels...

Excerpt: ...nsation insurance for PSMG, but this case does not involve any workers' compensation insurance issues for any entity. Defendant Semaan can invoke his Fifth Amendment privilege if and when it becomes necessary, the likelihood and extent of which appear to be minimal, and the court can rule at that time if necessary. If Semaan is ever charged with crimes as to defendant The Original Wine Club, Inc., defendants may renew their request for a stay of ...