Harris v. Superior Court (Cal. App. 2007)
Articles Discussing Case:
Insurance Adjusters Held Not Exempt from California Wage Orders (scroll down).
Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt • August 15, 2007 • Report Link
In Harris v. Superior Court, a divided California Court of Appeal panel held that insurance adjusters are not exempt from employees under the administrative exemption to California’s wage orders because their work does not “rise to the level of management policy or general operations” – despite the majority’s acknowledgment of no less than eight contrary rulings by federal courts applying identical regulatory language to insurance claims adjusters and contrary determinations by the U.S. Department of Labor in interpreting its own regulations.
