Chosak v. Alameda County Medical Center
California Court of Appeal
[CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MARGULIES, J.
I. INTRODUCTION
In 1975, the Legislature enacted the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975 (MICRA), legislation designed to lower medical malpractice insurance premiums by limiting malpractice litigation. Several provisions of MICRA, including Code of Civil Procedure 1 section 340.5, are made applicable to litigation against “health care providers,” a phrase the statutes define as including persons who are licensed or certified by the state to practice medicine. In this appeal, we must decide whether the term “health care provider,” as so defined, includes a…
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