California Court of Appeal

JOHNSON v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CALIFORNIA CRYOBANK, INC.), B155896

A sperm bank is a health care provider under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.13(b) (imposing procedural requirements on a party claiming punitive damages in a medical malpractice action), and doctors employed there acted as health care providers when they performed genetic screening of potential sperm donors.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2002
• Published 08/30/2002

Judges

• NOTT, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Farnell & Norman, R. Richard Farnell, Newport Beach, and Margaret Kathryn Maas for Petitioners., Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, Timothy R. Graves and Judith M. Tishkoff, Los Angeles, for Real Party in Interest California Cryobank, Inc., Bonne, Bridges, Mueller, O'Keefe & Nichols, Mark B. Connely, San Luis Obispo, and Vangi M. Johnson for Real Party in Interest Charles A. Sims.,  LaFollette, Johnson, DeHaas, Fesler, Silberberg & Ames, Louis H. DeHaas, Gillian N. Pluma and David J. Ozeran, Los Angeles, for Real Party in Interest Cappy Rothman.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.