California Court of Appeal

Trial court's reduction of the Calfornia Department of Health Care Services' (Department) lien for medical expenses paid to $63,216.69 from $547,680.08 the Department had paid for plaintiff's medical expenses arising from injuries suffered in a rear-end freeway collision is affirmed as the trial court did not abuse its discretion in acting within the statutory scheme and determined the Department's lien based on the evidence before it.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/04/2009
• Published 12/04/2009

Judges

• RAYE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Douglas M. Press, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Julie Weng-Gutierrez, Supervising Deputy Atty. Gen., and Niromi L. Wijewantha, Deputy Atty. Gen., for Third Party Claimant and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wilcoxen, Callahan, Montgomery & Deacon, Daniel E. Wilcoxen and Martha A. Taylor, Sacramento, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.