Claimant's Hasty Wedding Barred Previously-Set Deposition of Bride

The California 1st District Court of Appeal let stand an administrative law judge's ruling that an employer could not depose the wife of a worker claiming psychiatric injury regarding his history of drug use due to the spousal privilege, even though the couple wed just days before her scheduled deposition. The claims arose out of an industrial accident on April 3, 2007, when Ricardo Mota was caught in a conveyor belt while working for Cast Aluminum & Brass Corp., which had workers' compensation coverage from Zenith Insurance Co. He suffered multiple crush injuries to his head, neck...