Chinchurreta v. Evergreen Management, Inc.

This is a companion case to Chinchurreta v. Christensen, 117 Idaho 588, 790 P.2d 369 (Ct.App.1989), decided today. Like that case, this one involves a dispute over entitlement to Medicaid funds that were attached in a debt collection suit. Unlike the companion case, however, the funds were ordered to be released, not to the plaintiff, David Chinchurreta, but to the intervenors, Lowell and Paul Christensen. The dispositive question here is whether the Christensens were officious intermeddlers in the operation of a health care facility and, therefore, were not entitled to the Medicaid funds. We…