Collins v. Hemet Valley Hospital District

Opinion

KAUFMAN, J.

Richard and Ruth Collins, the parents of Patricia Ross, deceased, appeal from an order purporting to determine they were not dependent parents of their deceased daughter and are not, therefore, entitled to share in a $100,000 settlement made with one of two defendants in a wrongful death action prosecuted by them and the minor child of the decedent.

Facts

Richard and Ruth Collins, the parents of Patricia R. Ross (the decedent), instituted an action in the Riverside Superior Court on behalf of themselves and Erik Dwight Ross, the decedent’s minor child, against Hemet Valley…