An excerpt from the article which can be viewed on the Los Angeles Times website, Emil Davtyan, Todd B. Scherwin and Carney R. Shegerian Share Insights on Labor & Employment Law, or in our Archived PDF. Q: What were the most meaningful changes to labor and employment law and policy last year? Carney R. Shegerian, […]

After 8 long years of litigation, the survivor of the Bikram Case may see monetary relief At the vulnerable age of 18, Jill Lawler joined Bikram’s Yoga Training Seminar and set out on her life’s dream of becoming a Bikram Yoga instructor. As the lawsuit alleges, this dream quickly turned into a nightmare when, after […]

On March 6th, 2023, a Los Angeles jury awarded Richard Galvan, a former UPS employee, $5.4 million for his whistleblower retaliation claim against UPS. Richard Galvan had been recognized as a phenomenal employee at UPS. It was not until after he endured several months of unsafe work conditions that he reached out to Shegerian & […]

A new lawsuit accuses Facebook-parent company Meta Platforms of discriminating against a woman on the basis of sex, and then allegedly firing her when she complained. Talia Kennedy filed a new lawsuit against Meta Platforms and more than 100 individual defendants on Jan. 31 in San Francisco County Superior Court. Kennedy is accusing Meta of […]

Carney Shegerian and the trial lawyers of Shegerian & Associates reflect on the past year as one of the most memorable and critical in the plaintiffs employment firm’s history. “When courtrooms reopened, we were back in our element securing the favorable results for which we are known,” said founder Carney R. Shegerian, who closed out […]

Farmers Insurance Exchange and Farmers Insurance Group must pay roughly $2.27 million in attorneys’ fees to a legal executive who a jury found was fired in retaliation for testimony he was about to give backing female in-house lawyers in a class pay bias lawsuit.The California Superior Court for Los Angeles County entered an order in […]

SACRAMENTO, California, May 25 (TNSsro) — The Judicial Council of California issued the following opinion (No. B312302): FIONA TRINITY, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA et al., Defendants and Appellants. APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Michelle Williams Court, Judge. Affirmed. Littler Mendelson, Tanja L. Darrow and Sheerin Mehdian for Defendants and Appellants. Shegerian & Associates, Carney […]

LOS ANGELES – Two companies have been ordered to pay a former Senior Vice President of Claims Litigation $155.4 million in compensatory and punitive damages after he prevailed in his wrongful termination suit. The jury on Tuesday found that Farmers Group, Inc. and Farmers Insurance Exchange had retaliated against Andrew Rudnicki, a devoted and decorated […]

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Burbank Unified School District, (“BUSD”), has renewed its contract with mental health services provider Family Services Agency of Burbank. The news comes after Sunita Batra, who served as Director of Special Education at BUSD, filed a lawsuit against the District for wrongful termination. Batra is […]

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Activision Blizzard is now facing scrutiny after it was discovered the company paid pregnant employees for access to the data from their Ovia Health app. Ovia Health provides a suite of apps for family planning and wellness. With the app Ovia, users input their personal […]

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES, April 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — According to data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, there was a significant increase in sexual harassment charges of discrimination during 2018. The data shows that retaliation continues to be the most frequently filed charge with the agency. However, there was a 13.6% increase […]