California Court of Appeal

Welfare and Institutions Code 14124.70 et seq., which allows the state to recover from a plaintiff's personal injury award costs for Medi-Cal services provided to plaintiff, applies to medical malpractice actions where plaintiff was born with birth defects.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2001
• Published 08/16/2001

Judges

• ARMSTRONG, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Bill Lockyer, Attorney General of the State of California, John H. Sanders, Tammy Chung Ryu, Sandra L. Goldsmith, and Richard T. Waldow, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nathaniel J. Friedman, for Defendants and Respondents.