California Court of Appeal

A Medicare health care service plan may not enforce a plan arbitration provision that does not comply with statutory disclosure requirements applicable to all health care service plan arbitration agreements under California law. Neither the Federal Arbitration Act nor federal Medicare provisions preempt such disclosure requirements.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/15/2002
• Published 10/15/2002

Judges

• WOODS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Carol S. Jimenez, Long Beach;  Houck & Balisok, Russell S. Balisok, Steven C. Wilheim, Glendale, and Patricia L. Canner for Petitioners., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Kirk A. Patrick, Antoinette D. Paglia, Los Angeles, and Louis E. Shoch III for Real Parties in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.