Monthly Archives: January 2019

Third time’s a charm, and perhaps this time, the sentencing will be more severe. Whalesca Castillo has been arrested for manslaughter in the death of Lesbia Ayala, a resident of Philadelphia who had traveled to the Bronx to have Castillo perform a “butt lift” without a medical license. Castillo has also been charged with criminally negligent [...]

Many cosmetic surgery procedures are perfectly safe, and clients are healthy afterwards and happy with the results. But any surgery is dangerous, and not all plastic surgery operations leave us looking the way we expected or were promised. If you are injured due to the negligence of a plastic surgeon or their staff, you could have a [...]

Truck drivers may do work for large transportation companies and haul products or supplies for even larger manufacturing companies — but many of them own their own trucks. And if they’re in an accident that damages their truck, that can mean repair time that the driver isn’t out making money. Drivers can, however, file what [...]

Following on the heels of a 2015 conviction for sexual child abuse, the survivor and her family are now suing the owners and staff of Pak’s Karate school where the sexual abuse took place. Thomas Ary, the Pak’s instructor found guilty of sexually assaulting a female student while at a Pak’s summer camp, is serving 19 years [...]

As the year comes to a close, it’s time to assess what was significant in California’s workers’ compensation system in 2018. With hindsight, what were the big developments and the big themes? Each year I assess system developments at mid year and at year’s end. Here, in no particular order, are my picks for 2018 [...]

The mental health of migrant children trumps the federal government shutdown, hands-down, according to a Los Angeles federal court judge. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee certified the class of detained asylum-seeking migrant children requesting mental health aid, and firmly dismissed the government’s request to delay the suit until after the federal shutdown has ended. Noting that the [...]

It can happen to anyone, but in this case, it happened to Trevor Walker. Somehow, synthetic heroin was slipped into his Diet Coke at a McDonald’s drive-thru. No one knows exactly how the drug got into the drink, but tests taken at the hospital prove that Suboxone, a heroin-substitute, was found in Walker’s urine as well [...]