Rhode v. National Medical Hospital of Monterey Park, Inc.

Opinion

KLEIN, P. J.—

In this case, we are presented with an appeal and a cross-appeal from a judgment entered in favor of a workers’ compensation insurance carrier which intervened in an action brought by an injured employee against two third party defendants (Lab. Code, §§ 3852, 3853).

On May 5, 1972, Donald Rhode injured his back during the course of his employment as an outside television technician. The physician to whom he was referred, Dr. Clayton Ching, diagnosed the injury as a herniated disk, probably at the interspace between the numbers 4 and 5 lumbar vertebrae (hereinafter L4-5)…