HH Computer Systems, Inc. v. Pacific City Bank

Opinion

BEDSWORTH, Acting P. J.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case about stolen checks and check cashing services presents a distressingly common scenario: An employee of a corporation with responsibility to gather incoming checks made payable to the corporation and deposit those checks into the corporation’s bank account — in this case, the corporation’s accounting manager — steals some of the incoming checks and takes them to a check cashing service where she forges the signature of one of the officers of the corporation and receives hard cash in return. (See Cook, Robbed by Your Employees (Feb. 2013)…