California Court of Appeal

The Legislature precludes monetary recovery from a psychotherapist for his or her patient's threatened violent behavior, except where the patient has communicated to the psychotherapist a serious threat of physical violence against a reasonably identifiable victim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/21/2005
• Published 07/21/2005

Judges

• YEGAN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ajalat & Ajalat, Sol P. Ajalat and Stephen P. Ajalat, Burbank, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Herzfeld & Rubin, Michael A. Zuk, Los Angeles, and Daniel Abrahamian, for Howard Norman Glick, M.D., and Jerry Bruns-Garcia, M.D., Defendants and Respondents., Rushfeldt, Shelley & Drake;  Kenneth W. Drake and Erica A. Levitt, Sherman Oaks, for Thomas Wright, Ph.D., Defendant and Respondent.