Analysis by Michael Zorkin
Signed analysis on California commercial litigation, business torts, fraud, anti-SLAPP law, shareholder and partnership disputes, healthcare litigation, and litigation strategy.
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California corporate fiduciary-duty claims depend on the defendant’s role, the duty allegedly breached, and whether the injury is direct or derivative.
California distinguishes an intentionally false promise of future conduct from negligent misrepresentation, which generally concerns existing facts.
California treats non-emergency out-of-network reimbursement differently from emergency care, with the EOC and actual payment agreements taking center stage.
Rule 807 can admit trustworthy foreign records when ordinary hearsay exceptions fail, but authentication, necessity, corroboration, and notice remain critical.
Patient protections are working, but federal data show IDR awards and dispute volume diverging from early No Surprises Act cost-saving assumptions.
California UCL assignment rules and the different treatment of equitable restitution in state and federal court after Sonner and Guzman.
How Children’s Hospital, Long Beach Memorial, and Pomona Valley define reasonable market value for noncontracted emergency services.
Recent Ninth Circuit decisions sharpen Article III requirements for statutory, privacy, removed, and certified class actions after TransUnion.
Gopher Media ended immediate federal appeals from anti-SLAPP denials, widening procedural differences between California and federal court.
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