California Court of Appeal

In plaintiff's personal injury suit against a defendant for injuries sustained in an automobile accident, trial court's grant of defendant's post-trial motion for reduction of medical billings for part medical expenses is affirmed as, in light of the public policy conclusions expressed by the California Supreme Court and the Legislature's enactment of specific statutes governing the operation of the collateral source rule in limited kinds of cases, reduction is inappropriate in this case, and as such, the trial court violated the collateral source rule by reducing the jury's award of past medical expense damages to the cash amount paid by plaintiff's HMO.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/09/2010
• Published 08/09/2010

Judges

• CANTIL-SAKAUYE

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Walter H. Walker, Mark E. Berry