In California FEHA settlements, plaintiffs often recover damages for both emotional distress and lost wages—but how are those payments taxed? Employers often compel an allocation in damages between ...

Car accidents often leave victims overwhelmed with physical injuries, emotional stress, and unexpected financial strain.

Damages are an element to proving almost any civil claim, but is an essential element to all defamation and privacy claims. For those who have experienced online defamation and online harassment, it ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Emotional distress is the mental suffering accident and injury victims experience as an emotional response to a particular event. In tort law, two cases of action involve the infliction of emotional ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Oil that spilled when the Exxon Valdez tanker ran aground on a jagged rock in 1989 still lingers on and just below Alaska’s surface. So does the resentment, and a series of state ...