Chen v. Los Angeles Truck Centers, LLC

*864 In this tort action arising out of a fatal tour bus accident in Arizona, the parties initially included plaintiffs from China and defendants from both Indiana and California. Asked to decide which jurisdiction's law applied to the case, the trial court conducted the governmental interest test (see Reich v. Purcell (1967) 67 Cal.2d 551 , 63 Cal.Rptr. 31 , 432 P.2d 727 ( Reich )) and concluded that Indiana law governed. Before trial, however, the plaintiffs accepted a settlement offer from the Indiana manufacturer of the tour bus and dismissed that defendant from the case. We granted review to…