California Court of Appeal

KAIN v. CALIFORNIA DEP'T OF HEALTH SERVS., B144391

Welfare and Institutions Code section 14124.70, et seq., which allows the state to place a lien on a settlement or judgment obtained by a Medi-Cal beneficiary against a third party when Medi-Cal payments were used to treat an injury for which the third party is liable, applies to an award under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, USCA 300aa-1 et seq.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2001
• Published 08/02/2001

Judges

• COFFEE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Andrew M. Wolf, Ventura, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California;  Charlton G. Holland, III, Senior Assistant Attorney General;  John H. Sanders, Supervising Deputy Attorney General;  Susan A. Nelson, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendant and Respondent.