Callahan & Blain’s client, Sentex Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures access control systems for commercial and residential buildings and gated complexes. When Electronic Security Services sued Sentex, alleging that a former sales manager from their company had joined Sentex and used confidential, trade secret information to recruit its customers, Sentex turned to its insurance company.…
Often when a business dispute arises, the party being sued accepts their role as defendant and takes a defensive stance against the charges levied. At Callahan & Blaine, we discourage our commercial and corporate litigation clients from thinking in narrow terms of “plaintiff” or “defendant.” When your company is attacked, you need a law firm…
It seems that corporate greed has led to business fraud charges against an Orange County, California corporation with international business dealings. Control Components, Inc. (better known as CCI) is an Orange County, California based corporation that designs and manufactures service and control vales for the oil and gas industries as well as for nuclear power…
Callahan & Blaine recently won a half million dollar arbitration award for its client, Tustin Surgical Residency Managers, LLC or Orange County, California. During arbitration, Callahan & Blaine contended that Pacific Health Corporation, owner of several major hospitals in Southern California, and its flagship hospital, Tustin Hospital and Medical Center, Inc., failed to fairly pay…
Shortly after selling his Orange County, California appliance business to BAS Appliance Gallery (a subsidiary of Champ Industries of Houston, Texas), Ray Harmon discovered that the large corporation had no intention of paying nearly a million dollars that was still due on the purchase price. Harmon decided to take on the corporation, and filed suit…
Twelve individuals, most of them chiropractors, were arrested in Orange County, California and will be charged in relation to an insurance over-billing scheme. The arrests resulted from a sting operation that targeted illegal patient referral and insurance over-billing tactics by Orange County, California physicians and attorneys. The district attorney’s office, working from a list provided…
When Ronald and Mona Krebs decided to retire and sell their Orange County, California computer sales and service business, they used a business broker to find a buyer – Mr. Michael Kalashian of Nevada. While they agreed to sell Kalashian their business, they did not agree to sell him substantial business assets consisting of a…
Eighty-five construction workers employed by SelectBuild (a subsidiary of BMHC Corporation) in California, Arizona and Nevada filed suit against their employer recently. The workers claimed that their employer cheated them out of pay for hours they had worked by refusing to pay overtime and by not paying for hours worked while employees were either travelling…
Beckman Coulter manufactures medical instruments for hospitals, clinics and research centers worldwide. One of these instruments is the LX20 Blood Analyzer; after a yearlong search process, Beckman Coulter decided to outsource the manufacture of the circuit boards to Dovatron Manufacturing, Inc. Beckman Coulter and Dovatron entered a partially written, partially oral contract in 1998 for…
Figuring out what your health insurance does and does not cover can be challenging under the best of circumstances. But when your child is diagnosed with autism or an autism related disorder, it can be even more difficult to determine what coverage you are entitled to under your health insurance policy. According to the website…
