Legal Opinion
Lima v. Vouis
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 27, 2009No. B201786PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MOSK, J.
INTRODUCTION
As part of a proposed medical malpractice settlement that did not allocate the proceeds to categories of damages, plaintiff and appellant Guadalupe Lima (plaintiff) made a motion to extinguish a portion of a Medicaid lien asserted by the Department of Health Services (DHS). In mling on the motion to extinguish the lien, the trial court made findings, including the reasonableness of the amount of plaintiff’s total damages claimed and of the settlement, as well as the amount of plaintiff’s past medical expenses. Nevertheless, the trial court denied plaintiff’s motion…
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