Authorities on Saturday identified a 78-year-old Mission Viejo woman who died following a Christmas day crash in Lake Forest. Patricia Hultin was identified as the motorist who suffered fatal injuries during a two car collision at about 7:15 p.m. Friday at the El Toro Road and Glenmeadows Drive intersection, according to the Orange County coroner’s…
A rock slide along Highway 50 caused a massive boulder to land on the front end of a pickup truck, nearly killing the driver as he headed to Lake Tahoe. The Toyota Tacoma’s driver, who asked to be identified as Mike, didn’t see the cliff breaking apart as he drove eastbound on the highway near…
California, like almost every other state in the United States, follows the general rule of “employment at will.” As a general rule, either an employer or an employee may terminate the employment relationship at any time for any reason or no reason. There is no general requirement that an employer is “fair” or have “just…
If you’ve been injured in a workplace in California during the scope of your employment by an anticipated and foreseeable risk of that employment, you’re probably eligible for benefits under the California Workers’ Compensation Code. You might have reported the injury and had it medically verified, but that doesn’t mean that your employer’s workers’ compensation…
IRVINE – A Santa Ana man died early Thursday morning after a series of crashes that started with a suspected drunk driver swerving over lanes on the transition from the southbound I-5 to the 133 toll road, officials said. Juan Ticas, 39, of Santa Ana, was killed not in the initial crash, but after he…
A wrongful death action is a civil case that’s brought by a family member of a person who died through the negligent or intentional acts of somebody else. The California Wrongful Death Act provides that the surviving family members of the individual who was killed (decedent) are allowed to file a lawsuit seeking compensation for…
SANTA ANA — A search is underway for the driver behind a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in Santa Ana. The incident was reported around 1:45 a.m. Sunday in the 1200 block of West 1st Street near Baker Street. Responding Santa Ana police officers found the pedestrian dead, his body on the center median.…