Prosecutors allege that a La Canada woman stole nearly $88,000 from her elderly mother who resisded in an out-of-state nursing home. According to Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino, 68-year-old Pamela Land received power of attorney over her elderly mother’s assets, basically so she could pay the nursing home bill and take care of other pressing financial matters. Instead, prosecutors say that Ms. Land spent over $87,000 of her mother’s money on shopping sprees and her own living expenses. The theft occurred over a three-year period, from May 2013 to January 2016. Deputy Attorney General Melissa M. Simsen, who obtained indictments before Continue Reading
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In 1969, California Governor Ronald Reagan signed the country’s first no-fault divorce law. Before that time, judges could only grant divorces based on marital fault, such as adultery, abandonment, or cruelty. The new law legalized divorce based on “irreconcilable differences,” which basically means that the marriage has broken down but neither spouse was to blame. Over the next ten or fifteen years, most all other states passed their own no-fault laws, and the divorce rate rose exponentially during the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, the divorce rate began leveling off. Although it has actually declined recently, the divorce rate Continue Reading
At $3.24 per $100 of payroll, workers’ compensation rates in the California are roughly twice the national average and the highest ones in the country. Overall, rates are essentially unchanged from a year ago; the national average dropped from $1.85 in 2015 to $1.84 in 2016. In California, rates have actually declined rather sharply from a high of almost $3.50 per $100, largely because lawmakers adopted anti-fraud measures in 2012. California’s Department of Industrial Relations Director Christine Baker said the $3.24 figure is inflated because of the metrics used in the study, since the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau recently set 2017 rates at $2.22. Furthermore, “California Continue Reading