Read Sutter Health Uninsured Pricing Cases, C054983

In a class action against a hospital system alleging that it improperly denied plaintiffs discounts it granted insured patients, trial court's denial of plaintiffs-intervenors's motion to intervene and overruling of their objections to the settlement of the action is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff failed to file a proper motion to intervene under the Code of Civil Procedure; and 2) plaintiff failed to support any of his arguments as to why the settlement should not be approved.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2009
• Published 02/24/2009

Judges

• MORRISON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wilcoxen, Callahan, Montgomery & Deacon, Steven Schultz and Daniel Wilcoxen, Sacramento, Ryan & Fong, Timothy J. Ryan, Sacramento, Emry J. Allen and Gerald B. Glazer, Attorneys at Law, Elk Grove, for Movant and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jones Day, Jeffrey A. LeVee and Samantha S. Eisner, Los Angeles, for Respondent Sutter Health., Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Kelly M. Dermody, Daniel M. Hutchinson and Jenna M. Whitman, San Francisco, for Defendants and Respondents Nathaniel Pollack et al.