Floyd Skeren Manukian Langevin, LLP, is pleased to announce that its Business Litigation team, led by Eric E. Ostling (partner), along with David Graziani (associate attorney), successfully defended its client in a complex, seventy-five million dollar lawsuit, in which plaintiffs alleged substantial damages for contract interference and interference with prospective economic advantage.

The lawsuit was filed in 2020, and involved allegations against multiple businesses, including FSML’s client.

The eight-day trial was held in Los Angeles County Superior Court, and Mr. Ostling obtained a defense judgment on all causes of action against FSML’s client.

Mr. Ostling is a partner and the Managing Attorney of the Law Offices of Floyd Skeren Manukian Langevin’s Sacramento office. Mr. Ostling earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis, before attending the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree. He then obtained his Master of Law and Taxation Degree, also from the University of the Pacific. Mr. Ostling has been Certified as a Specialist in Workers’ Compensation Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization since 2006.

Prior to joining the Law Offices of Floyd Skeren Manukian Langevin, LLP in 2007, Mr. Ostling spent twenty years litigating civil, employment and workers’ compensation issues before various Federal District Courts, California Superior Courts, as well as the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB).

As a result of this litigation experience, Mr. Ostling brings with him a breadth of knowledge on subrogation, employment and civil litigation to allow him to effectively represent Floyd Skeren Manukian Langevin’s clients in the WCAB, Superior Court, or Federal Court.

Currently, Mr. Ostling represents employers, insurance entities, self-insured entities and third party administrators before the WCAB on standard workers’ compensation defense, §132a discrimination claims and serious and willful misconduct allegations.

Mr. Ostling also represents clients in State and Federal Court proceedings involving subrogation, general liability defense (product defect, premises liability, motor vehicle), and labor and employment law matters (claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, privacy violations, wrongful termination, PAGA, and wage & hour violations).