Employment Rights Cases

Here are just a few of our Employment Rights cases. Contact us for more information.

Confidential. In Lawrence B. Kohler and Joseph Orlando v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Employers Insurance of Wausau, et al, Civil Action No. C 93-1584 SC the plaintiffs, Nationwide's two leading commerical lines insurance brokers, that Nationwide breached their contract for failure to pay delayed compensation, improperly made chargebacks to extended earnings payments, breached their implied-in-fact contract for good cause termination, breached an implied-in-fact contract for exclusivity and alleging that Wausau tortiously interfered with contract. After completing all discovery, prior to trial, a settlement conference before the Honorable Eugene Lynch resulted in an amicable settlement which is confidential.

$6,170,000. With our co-counsel represented 1,809 California Allstate Insurance agents who had not been reimbursed for the cost of maintaining Allstate offices under R830, R1500 or R3000 employment contracts. Although these agents legally were employees of Allstate, Allstate required them to personally pay for the costs of operating company offices under its Neighborhood Office Agency program. Under the California Labor Code, employees cannot be forced to pay for an employers' business expenses as a condition of employment and Allstate paid $6,170,000 in reimbursments to its employees. In addition to receiving reimbursement of office operating expenses, one of the benefits of the settlement is the recognition of the agent's ownership interest in his book of business one year from the date of conversion to independent contractor status. Without the settlement an agent would have had to wait five years from conversion under Allstate's previous rules in order to be able to sell his or her book of business acquired prior to conversion. In re Insurance Agent Cases I and II, J. C. C.P.Nos. 2984 and 2985, Alameda County Superior Court before Hon. Joseph Carson.