CITY OF HOPE NAT. MEDICAL CENTER v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B066833.

8 Cal.App.4th 633 (1992)

10 Cal. Rptr.2d 465

CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; WESTERN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Real Party in Interest.

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

July 31, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Manatt, Phelps, Phillips & Kantor, Robert E. Hinerfeld, Barry S. Landsberg and Lisa M. Rockwell for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Vernon E. Leverty for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

VOGEL, J.

We issued an alternative writ (order to show cause) to consider an issue of first impression in California — whether an insurer may obtain restitution of money paid by mistake to a hospital standing as a bona fide creditor of its insured patient. Our answer is no.

FACTS

City of Hope National Medical Center provided medical care to Dominic Constanti and, having obtained a standard assignment...

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