San Diego Personal Injury Blog

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — A San Diego court has preliminarily approved a class action settlement between wireless phone users and the City of Chula Vista that includes $8 million being made available for funding for rebates and refunds of the City’s telephone user’s tax and payment of litigation expenses and attorneys’ fees.

High school just wouldn’t be high school without football.

At least that’s the way many parents and children see it.

Yet in aftermath of the high profile deaths of former pro players such as Junior Seau, concerns are growing over the long-term effects of playing football, putting the spotlight on the potential dangers of head trauma and concussions at the high school level – and beyond.

The tax, introduced in 1970, charges a small fee on users of telephones, electricity and other utilities within the South Bay city. As cell phones came into popular use, Chula Vista started allowing phone companies to tax cell phone calls too, and for years it collected and spent that tax money.

By Douglas Sherwin, The Daily Transcript

The city of Chula Vista has agreed to pay up to $8 million in refunds to settle a class-action dispute over a telephone tax it applies to wireless phone users in the city.

Women are inching ahead in the legal profession in San Diego. An annual equality survey by Lawyers Club of San Diego shows small but steady increases in the numbers of women and minorities in partner and leadership positions in law firms from last year.

SDMetro

Top San Diego litigator Robert Francavilla has attained millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for his clients over the years – most recently settling a complex premises liability case on behalf of a seriously injured client for $7.5 million in damages.

In an effort to draw attention to the need to maintain a high rate of vaccination in this country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared this week (April 20-27) National Infant Immunization Week. 

Once a childhood rite of passage, chicken pox has been virtually wiped out since the vaccine was introduced in 1995. Chicken Pox Vaccine Story

A new study conducted by Kaiser researchers and published in Pediatrics, a medical journal for the American Academy of Pediatrics, Effectiveness Story assesses the effectiveness of the chicken pox vaccine and confirms that it offers long term protection against disease.