CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. D017045.

9 Cal.App.4th 1321 (1992)

12 Cal. Rptr.2d 95

CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Respondent; JEFFREY B. LANDA et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

September 25, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber, Rick C. Zimmerman and B. Thomas French for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Zelle & Larson and Denise Schardein for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

FROEHLICH, J.

The petitioner, California Physicians' Service, doing business as Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield), seeks extraordinary review of the superior court's overruling of its demurrer to the plaintiffs' supplemental complaint. The supplemental complaint attempts to state a cause of action in tort for the filing of bad faith or malicious defensive pleadings. The filing of defensive pleadings is clearly a privileged...

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