California’s Proposition 51 makes defendants jointly liable for all economic damages, but severally liable for noneconomic damages only in proportion to fault. The landscape of Prop 51 has now changed after the holding in B.B. v. County of Los Angeles.

Business interruption insurance coverage is one of the most contested issues to arise in the wake of COVID-19. To date, there have been two significant court rulings, both in favor of insurers.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals finds in Barnes v. Routh Crabtree Olsen PC (9th Cir. 2020) that repossession companies that do nothing more than seek the return of property are not engaged in “debt collection activities.”