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Workers Compensation in the Water Management Industry
This video provides a historical perspective of California Workers Compensation including its main cost drivers, jurisdictional heat maps, ways to properly assist employees with disabilities and comorbidities, and strategies to address medical bill review and medical provider networks. Davidson Pattiz, Chief Operating Officer at Zenith Insurance Company, will provide this important content in an understandable and actionable format.
Sexual Harassment in the Water Management Industry
This video discusses the types of workplace sexual harassment and the influence of the #metoo movement on employees and juries. Emphasis centers on public entities and the importance of documented risk mitigation measures to ensure consistency and compliance throughout the enterprise. Greg Rolen, Esq. provides his experience and expertise as a defense attorney specializing in this evolving and high-risk legal genre.
Insurance Coverage Rules for Inverse Condemnation Actions Involving Public Water Systems
Inverse condemnation is a complex legal theory presenting unique, opaque and expansive liability to public water systems. Its gravity is analogous to the Greek mythological Titan Atlas, who was condemned by Zeus to stand at the western edge of earth and hold up the sky on his shoulders. Public water systems face a similar fate, except their strain arises from the weight of a legal theory that is noble in concept yet predacious in practice.