Premises Liability Claims: Plaintiff and Defense Strategies in Unsafe Workplace and Failure to Warn Cases
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
The CLE course will provide guidance to personal injury plaintiff and defense counsel for pursuing or defending premises liability claims involving unsafe workplaces and failure to warn cases. The panel will feature a plaintiff’s attorney and defendant’s attorney perspective on drafting a complaint, crafting a defense, strategies for discovery and litigation, and developing trial themes.
Outline
- Overview of premises liability
- Crafting the theme of plaintiff’s case while drafting the complaint
- Contributory negligence
- Crafting the theme of defendant’s case while drafting the answer to the complaint
- Intervention by the Employer/Workers’ Compensation Insurer
- Drafting discovery and litigating the case
- Preventing unfair apportionment
Benefits
The panel will provide a comprehensive overview of how to approach a fact pattern from both the plaintiff and defense perspectives, showing you the who, what, when, where and how of litigating a premises liability case.
Faculty
Jesse A. Boyd
Partner
Ericksen Arbuthnot
Mr. Boyd is co-chair of Ericksen Arbuthnot’s Environment Group. With more than twenty years of experience... | Read More
Mr. Boyd is co-chair of Ericksen Arbuthnot’s Environment Group. With more than twenty years of experience representing clients in complex matters ranging from interstate water disputes before the U.S. Supreme Court, to multi-party remediation agreements, to nation-wide class-actions, he has the experience and technical expertise to handle your most difficult cases. Along with water and environmental matters, Mr. Boyd handles cases involving complex business disputes, toxic torts, commercial and consumer class-actions, and trade-secret litigation.
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Eustace de Saint Phalle
Principal
Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver
Mr. de Saint Phalle has established himself as one of California’s top personal injury trial lawyers, having... | Read More
Mr. de Saint Phalle has established himself as one of California’s top personal injury trial lawyers, having personally litigated multiple cases to settlement, verdict, or judgment with awards in excess of $1,000,000 and as high as $25,000,000. For the last fifteen years, he has been running a trial team dedicated to the representation of injured individuals in California which has handled matters specializing in civil litigation that involve complicated medical issues and disabilities. Mr. de Saint Phalle is an accomplished civil litigator in a variety of areas, including industrial accidents, product liability, exceptions to workers’ compensation, premises liability, professional malpractice, auto, bicycle and boating accidents, as well as business disputes.
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Brendan C. Gannon
Attorney
Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver
Mr. Gannon practices in the Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver Personal Injury Group. In the last few years, he... | Read More
Mr. Gannon practices in the Rains Lucia Stern St. Phalle & Silver Personal Injury Group. In the last few years, he has become an accomplished civil litigator in a variety of areas, including premises liability, professional malpractice, auto and bicycle accidents, as well as business disputes, having successfully litigated multiple cases to settlement.
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