An employer shall in all cases indemnify his employee for losses caused by the employer’s want of ordinary care.
Cal. Lab. Code § 2800
Obligations of Employer
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 3 Cal. 5th 531 - Williams v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty. (2017)
Most recently applied in 3 Cal. 5th 531 - Williams v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty. (July 2017)
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 90.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.