Jim Willcoxson News Today

A California employer has a statutory duty to provide its employees with a safe and healthful workplace. The duty to provide a safe workplace also includes the duty to take reasonable steps to prevent workplace violence. A look at Colonial Van & Storage, Inc. v. Superior Court.

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Two women who were shot at a colleague’s home by her mentally incapacitated son can’t sue her employer, a California appeals court ruled, rejecting plaintiff arguments the company had a duty to provide a safe working environment or should have prohibited employees from working at home.