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Labor/Employment

Aug. 21, 2012

When, if ever, are claims adjusters exempt from overtime requirements?

Last month, the Court of Appeal was charged with answering this question. By Felix Shafir of Horvitz & Levy LLP


By Felix Shafir


For a time, it appeared that California courts all but categorically rejected the premise that insurance claims adjusters were "administrative" employees exempt from California's overtime requirements, with courts treating adjusters as little more than time-clock punching factory workers. Then, late last year, all that seemed set to change after the state Supreme Court decided Harris v. Superior Court, 53 Cal.4th 170 (2011) (<...

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