ASSOCIATED CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners,
v.
WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and JEFFERY L. COLE, Respondents.
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December 19, 1978.
December 19, 1978.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
COUNSEL
Trout, Heggeness & Sweet, Clifford D. Sweet III and Perry Trout, Jr., for Petitioners.
Hanna, Brophy, MacLean, McAleer & Jensen, Warren L. Hanna, Michael G. Lowe, J.J. Vonk, G.S. Bjornsen, Arthur Hershenson, Louis L. Fayne, Michael J. Brodie, Mansell & Arthur, John L. Maier, Twohy & Brown and Kevin R. Twohy as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.
Charles L. Swezey, Philip M. Miyamoto, Thomas J. McBirnie, Joel A. Wallock, Ludecke & Andreos and Alan J. Ludecke for Respondents.
Lonergan, Jordan, Gresham, Varner & Savage, Allen B. Gresham, Barry J. Williams, Frank J. Reilly, Robert Goldstein, Robert Cartwright, Edward I. Pollock, Leroy Hersh, David G. Baum, Robert G. Beloud, Ned Good, Arne Werchick, Stephen Zetterberg, Roger H. Hedrick, Leonard Sacks and Robert B. Steinberg as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.
Supreme Court of California.
OPINION
MOSK, J.
We must determine whether the principles of comparative negligence prescribed in Li v. Yellow Cab Co. (1975) 13 Cal.3d 804 [119 Cal.Rptr. 858, 532 P.2d 1226, 78 A.L.R.3d 393], are to be applied to the adjudication of employers' subrogation rights within the workers' compensation system. In...
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