Corfee Stone & Associates

We won! Kaiser Hospital Must Improve It’s Training and Use of Auxiliary Aids to The Deaf, Including Live Interpreters. After nearly 2 1/2 years of hard fought litigation, Corfee Stone and the Cutter Law firm prevailed against Kaiser South Sacramento hospital who denied a deaf patient a live interpreter to disclose his significant stroke. He had an unexpected stroke and during normal surgery. He could not tell anyone because live interpreters are only used before and after s...urgery. Otherwise, They were using small videos where he hast to rely on the Wi-Fi and computer equipment to learn about his medical condition and understand it but he had had a stroke. He needed a live interpreter, someone who could see him, see his hand signing and his week left hand. He was never told his diagnosis for eight days, and meanwhile he was becoming more and more paralyzed on his left side. His father is the one that noticed it! The Cutter Law firm and Corfee Stone and Associates are proud to announce this victory for our client and for the deaf and the hard of hearing. A civil right gone right! Judge Brian Van Camp saw through Kaiser’s weak defense. Corfee Stone: We Practice Both Disability Rights For Plaintiff’s and Defend Business’s regarding their Rights from Abusive ADA Lawsuits We promote the Truth! www.corfeestone.com 916-487-5441 Catherine Corfee, Esq.

Who will Pay for Scott Johnson’s Criminal Defense of Tax Evasion? All of the new businesses that he sues, that’s who! My law office has noticed a spike in new ADA lawsuits filed by Johnson since the announcement of his criminal charges. Disabled plaintiff Scott N. Johnson has sued thousands of businesses in Northern California Federal Courts for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities’ Act (ADA). He claims he lacks access to businesses to patronize as compared ...Continue reading

FLASH NEWS! Disabled Scott N. Johnson indicted today on tax evasion regarding his thousands of ADA lawsuits and the money he received.I am in the news in this issue!! https://wp.me/p14KRi-2th1

Calif. Employers - Change Your Settlement and Waiver Agreements! This update is for California employers, including employment law attorneys like myself. Generally, in California, when you settle and resolve an employment dispute, the employer and the employee enter into a settlement agreement, which has a general release where the employee agrees to waive any and all claims known or unknown that could be later discovered. In order to ensure that this general release is va...lid and enforceable, the employee must understand his or her right to not waive those claims pursuant to the protections of California Civil Code section 1542. Section 1542 actually precludes the employee from waiving unknown or unsuspected claims that could have affected his or her decision to settle if later discovered. To have a settlement and waiver of all unknown claims, an employer needs to cite 1542 verbatim so an employee clearly knows that he or she is waving those protections and agrees to give up any and all unknown or unsuspected claims that could later be discovered. A good settlement agreement will cite the language of section 1542 and have the employee knowingly waive it. Some of language in 1542 has now changed very slightly by the new amendment effective January 1, 2019. One change adds the words, releasing party and there are a few other tweaks. The point is to check your settlement agreements to make sure that the waiver of Civil Code 1542 matches Nee amendment when you insert it in your settlement agreement. By Catherine Corfee, Esq. ADA Access, Employment Law and Housing Discrimination Attorney Call for a consultation if you need advice regarding employment law, ADA accessibility law or housing discrimination matters. 916-487-5441 Corfee Stone Law Corporation Serving Northern and Southern California.

AVOID ADA WEBSITE LAWSUITS! *Especially Hotels! If you have a website that promotes your goods and services, be sure that individuals with disabilities can access and use it. This means you need added features, descriptive content, contrasting colors, and a certain software. Modifying your website is not complicated, however, figuring out the legal requirements for ADA compliance is challenging. This is because the Federal Department of Justice has not publis...Continue reading