Legal Opinion
Sanchez v. Brooke
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 8, 2012No. B224835PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SUZUKAWA, J.
—An injured employee (plaintiff Lydia Sanchez, a home health care worker) filed a personal injury action against the trustees of the estate of a third party tortfeasor (the late Dorothea B. Kavanaugh, the elderly woman for whom Sanchez had provided care). The trustees (defendants Darrell G. Brooke and Darryl Denning) asserted as an affirmative defense the comparative negligence of Sanchez and her employer (Glendale Adventist Health, also known as Western Health Resources (Western or employer)). Western, which is not a party to this action, filed a workers’ compensation lien…
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