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RIDDELL v. STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Docket No. B095171.

50 Cal.App.4th 1607 (1996)

BRETT KEVIN RIDDELL, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant; S. KIMBERLY BELSHE, as Director, etc., Claimant and Appellant.

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

November 21, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, John H. Sanders and James F. Ahern, Deputy Attorneys General, for Claimant and Appellant.

James R. Nichols, Jr., for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GILBERT, J.

Welfare and Institutions Code section 14124.70 et seq., allows the Department of Health Services of the State of California to recover Medi-Cal benefits paid to a beneficiary who is injured by a third party.1 But what if the tortfeasor is another department of the State of California? May the Department of Health Services obtain a lien against the proceeds of a pretrial settlement between...

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