4th DCA Orders Publication of Ruling on Exception to Exclusive Remedy

California’s 4th District Court of Appeals last week ordered publication of its prior decision as to the applicability of the exclusive remedy exception in Labor Code Section 4558.  The court’s original opinion in Santos v. Crenshaw Manufacturing Inc. was released earlier this month as an unpublished ruling. Two Pasadena law firms — Van Blois & Associates, and Esner, Chang & Boyer — requested that the court release the decision as a published ruling. Only published rulings establish binding precedent in California. The court on Friday gran...