California Court of Appeal

In a cause of action arising from denial of plaintiff's admission into the preferred provider network (PPN) operated by State Compensation Insurance Fund, grant of defendant's motion for judgment notwithstanding verdict is reversed where: 1) the trial court erred in granting the motion as the records included ample evidence to support the jury's finding; and 2) defendant's alternate arguments in support of the trial court's judgment were without merit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/25/2008
• Published 03/25/2008

Judges

• POLLAK, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roxborough, Pomerance & Nye LLP, Drew E. Pomerance, Erin M. LaBrache, Woodland Hills, for plaintiff and appellant Palm Medical Group, Inc., David Bryan Leonard, as amicus curiae on behalf of plaintiff.


• For Appellees:
  
• State Compensation Insurance Fund, Robert W. Daneri, Vera C. DeMartini, San Francisco, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Paul E.B. Glad, Steven H. Frankel, Sean McEneaney, San Francisco, for defendant and appellant State Compensation Insurance Fund., Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, Daniel Sovocool, Jennifer McGlone, San Francisco, for California Chamber of Commerce as amicus curiae on behalf of defendant., Law Offices Of Saul Allweiss, Michael A. Marks, San Francisco, for California Workers' Compensation Institute as amicus curiae on behalf of defendant., Donald H. Crane, Burbank, for California Association of Physician Groups as amicus curiae on behalf of defendant., Gretchen M. Lachance, for California Association of Health Plans as amicus curiae on behalf of defendant.