California Court of Appeal

A worker's compensation claimant may not sue the employer-s insurance carrier in Superior Court for the insurer-s purported mishandling of its lien on the claimant's settlement with a third party tortfeasor.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/16/2001
• Published 04/16/2001

Judges

• REARDON, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Charles Schwartz,Russell Davis, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, John Leland Williams, San Francisco, Virginia Young, for respondent., Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Joseph P. Mascovich, Kenneth M. Seeger, Oakland, Adam R. Salvas, for National Association of Independent Insurers as amicus curiae on behalf of respondent.