California Court of Appeal

When Medi-Cal has provided medical services to an indigent beneficiary, the California Department of Health Services can obtain reimbursement from the recovery made by the beneficiary's survivors in a wrongful death.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/14/2003
• Published 05/14/2003

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, James Humes, Senior Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sanders, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and John Venegas, Deputy Attorney General, for Claimant and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrews & Hensleigh and Joseph Andrews, Los Angeles, for Plaintiffs and Respondents, Dianne Fitch, as Guardian ad Litem for David Jay Fitch and Kaci Dee Fitch and Bonnie Ann Fitch, individually.