Question 1

What Should I Do If My Employer Is Not Following The California Labor Laws?

Accepted Answer

If you have a suspicion that someone is not following California labor laws, give us a call. Call the Marcarian Law Firm to speak to one of our attorneys. Many times, people may think that something is illegal or unlawful when it is not. It may be drastically unfair, but it may not be unlawful. Contact our office to talk to us, and we will try to determine whether or not what your employer is doing is unlawful. We may need to see documents; we may need more information. But the first thing you should do is give us a call. Don’t wait, because the law only gives you so much time to file a lawsuit.

Question 2

Why Should I Hire The Marcarian Law Firm To Represent Me In A Wage Dispute?

Accepted Answer

The Marcarian Law Firm has had a great deal of experience dealing with California’s wage and hour laws. We have represented several individuals in class actions against some fairly sizable employers in the state of California. We do know the wage and hour law and stay abreast of that. We are a small law firm and pay individual attention to our clients. In other words, from intake to the trial, we are with our clients every step of the way. We do not have an associate prepare the case and hand it off to a trial attorney we never met until two days before the trial. You will get to know us, and we will get to know you. We feel that is a great advantage.

Question 3

What Is Considered Wrongful Termination?

Accepted Answer

There are quite a few misconceptions out there involving “wrongful termination” in the legal sense. California is an “at-will” employment state – meaning an employer hires you at will and can terminate you at will. Unless you have an employment contract, an employer can pretty much fire you or lay you off for almost any reason at any time. They do not need to have a great reason to do it and they can even make a mistake in firing you. But, they can’t fire you or lay you off for an unlawful reason, as defined by California law – that would be “wrongful termination.” (California Government Code Section 12940 and/or California Labor Code Section 1102.5) Again, it must be unlawful. They do not have to fire you for a fair reason. There is a lot of unfairness in the workplace, but that is not necessarily wrongful termination. Some examples of wrongful termination would be situations where your employer fires you because you complained about not getting your proper wages, not getting your overtime, not getting your lawful meal breaks, and not getting your lawful rest breaks. In those situations, you are complaining about employer behavior that is unlawful, and you can’t be fired because you did – that would be a “wrongful termination.”Another example would be if you were terminated because your employer asked you to do something unlawful such as cheat a customer, make money, or falsify some government reporting records. The activity your employer is asking you to perform is not lawful, and if they fire you because you refuse to do something unlawful, that is “wrongful termination.” There are other examples, but it is a fairly well-defined and finite area by law. It is also a challenging area in which to prosecute a claim, but we have done it and we have been successful.

Question 4

How Can An Attorney Help Me In A Wrongful Termination Case?

Accepted Answer

First of all, the attorney must get the whole story from the employee who thinks they have been wrongfully terminated. Once the attorney has all of those facts, he or she can help the employee determine whether or not it was simply an unfair decision on the part of the employer or unlawful wrongful termination. There is quite a bit of case law on wrongful termination, so there are all kinds of nuances. Only an experienced attorney can help an employee figure out whether or not they have a wrongful termination claim. Then, that attorney can properly construct a complaint and file a lawsuit. All of this has to be done with a great deal of care and attention to the facts of your particular case.

Question 5

How do I know if I need an attorney to help with my medical malpractice case?

Accepted Answer

Once there are clinical signs or symptoms suggesting that something is not right following a procedure or surgery, the individual needs to seek additional medical help, perhaps to obtain a second opinion from a doctor to find out why he or she is experiencing those clinical symptoms or why the patient died. Once that is done, and depending on the information he or she obtains from the second medical provider, the potential client should contact a lawyer to discuss the matter. The first thing I tell individuals who contact me is that a bad result does not mean malpractice. For us to assess and evaluate your case, we need your full set of medical records. We will then review them internally and in-house and send them out for review to the appropriate medical professional.

Question 6

What makes you the best choice for a medical malpractice attorney?

Accepted Answer

There are a number of fine lawyers who do medical malpractice cases, and we are right up there with them. One of the things we do at our office is generally start and finish with the client. This means we are very involved from the initial client interview all the way through to trial or arbitration. For our firm, doing that is a major benefit because we learn about the case as we go along. At some of the other firms, associates and paralegals do the legwork up until the time the case comes up to trial. There are some very great trial lawyers with great skills and experience, but those lawyers are at a major disadvantage because they have not been intimately involved with the case. They do not know the minutia facts. That is one reason we feel we are a very good choice. I [Armond Marcarian] have over 27 years of experience as a registered pharmacist in addition to my legal experience. At the Marcarian Law Firm, we can perform an initial in-house review and analysis of the medical records, thereby saving the client some money and time before we turn to the experts for analysis of the issues. The fourth reason is that we are tenacious.

Question 7

How Big of a Problem Is Prescription Drug Abuse, And Who Does This Affect?

Accepted Answer

Prescription drug abuse and substance abuse are huge problems nationally. It has resulted in thousands and thousands of cases of death from overdose. Unfortunately, the average age population where you are seeing this happen is college students and young adults in their late twenties. It affects a lot of people but in most instances younger individuals.

Question 8

What is a Prescription Overdose?

Accepted Answer

Prescription overdose typically occurs when a patient either intentionally or otherwise takes more of the drug than was prescribed for the patient. There are times when prescriptions are taken, even if the prescription taken was not ordered for that particular patient, and the patient intentionally ingests excessive amounts, thereby causing injury or death.

Question 9

What If The Pharmacy Gave Me The Wrong Dose Or The Wrong Drug?

Accepted Answer

If the pharmacy dispenses the wrong medication or the wrong dosage and a patient ingests the medication, it will turn on whether or not there is an injury to the patient as a result of the wrong dosage or the wrong drug. If there is no injury, there will not be a legal claim. However, if the matter was brought to the attention of the California State Board of Pharmacy, there would be some administrative and disciplinary action initiated by the Board against the pharmacy and the pharmacist who dispensed the wrong drug or the wrong dosage.

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