The California Labor Commissioner and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement recently designated a decision as a precedent, upholding two citations against an employer for operating without workers’ comp coverage. …
The head of an illegal scheme to sell a purported alternative to workers’ comp coverage and the operation’s head of finances has asked a federal district court for acquittal and …
The California Department of Insurance and officials associated with the illegal multi-employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) that operated as American Labor Alliance have agreed to settle the government’s case to collect …
State and federal officials are continuing their efforts to hold accountable those behind the illegal multi-employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) operation that sold a purported alternative to actual workers’ comp coverage. …
Five years after a federal indictment was handed down and nearly eight years after state officials first ordered an illegal workers’ comp program to cease and desist operations, a jury …
The federal judge overseeing the prosecution of two officials linked to an illegal workers’ comp program took under submission each side’s pretrial motions in limine to determine what will and …
The five-year-old criminal fraud case against Marcus Asay, Antonio Gastelum, and their American Labor Alliance (ALA) and Agricultural Contracting Services Association is finally going to trial. The U.S. District Court …
The state’s case against a claimed labor organization for selling a purported workers’ comp alternative is nearly six years old, but the illegal multi-employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) continues to operate …