California Court of Appeal
Bolanos v. Superior Court of the the State of California for the County of Los Angeles, B205815
READ
In proceedings involving amendments enacted in 2007 to statutes that govern claims for reimbursements made by the California Department of Health Services for funds expended on behalf of injured parties by the state's Medi-Cal program, petition for writ of mandate is granted where: 1) the trial court did not determine the portion of the settlement that was effected in this case that was allocable to medical expenses, which effectively made the entire sum expended by the director recoverable; 2) the trial court's determination did not comply with the Arkansas Dept. of Health and Human Servs. v. Ahlborn and the amendments to the statute.
Appellate Information
- Decided 12/23/2008
- Published 12/23/2008
Judges
- FLIER, J.
Court
- California Court of Appeal
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Mathews & Weisser and C. Granville-Matthews for Petitioner., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Douglas M. Press, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Richard T. Waldow, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Janet E. Burns, Deputy Attorney General, for Real Party in Interest.
- For Appellees:
- No appearance for Respondent.