Even in the land of plenty, otherwise known as North America, where it appears that most people are doing fine, things can go awry. A layoff or illness can leave you with little or no income and put you in dire straits. Perhaps your business suffers a downturn due to market changes.
Most of us really […]

Professional indemnity insurance, like product liability insurance, is designed to provide insurance for claims brought against the policyholder due to their professional negligence, or due to perceived negligence. Although it’s normally inadvertent, mishaps happen frequently in the business world, whether it’s in manufacturing, sales, distribution, or, in the case of this type of insurance, services […]

California Labor Code section 2922 provides: “An employment, having no specified term, may be terminated at the will of either party on notice to the other.”[1] Simple enough, right? Unless an there is an agreement that an employment relationship is going to exist for a specific period of time, the relationship is considered “at-will” and […]

Compromise agreements are a kind of redundancy or severance package agreed between an employer and an employee. Compromise agreements are used when severance is voluntary, as opposed to being compulsory or forced upon the employee. As a voluntary arrangement, compromise agreements usually some form of incentive or monetary compensation for the employee.
When a compromise agreement […]

Personal injury can cause devastating ripples across every area of life and flow into far reaching relationships. Affecting social, vocational, personal and spiritual relations with friends, coworkers, family, and raising questions of a religious nature the rippling effects that result from personal injury can dramatically change how the victim of an accident views and is […]