ST. AGNES MEDICAL CENTER v. PACIFICARE

No. S111323.

8 Cal.Rptr.3d 517 (2003)

82 P.3d 727

31 Cal.4th 1187

SAINT AGNES MEDICAL CENTER, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. PACIFICARE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

December 18, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

K & R Law Group, Konowiecki & Rank, Peter Roan, Los Angeles, Karen S. Fishman, Beverly Hills, Cameron H. Faber, Samuel J. Woo; Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Timothy T. Coates and Peter O. Israel, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Appellants.

Epstein Becker & Green, William A. Helvestine, Michael T. Horan and Elizabeth Arenson, San Francisco, for California Association of Health Plans as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Craig J. De Recat, John F. Libby, Seth A. Gold, Jeffrey J. Maurer, Joanna S. McCallum, Terri D. Keville and Barry S. Landsberg, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Roy G. Weatherup, J. Alan Warfield, Los Angeles; Marschak, Shulman, Hodges & Bastian, Ronald S. Hodges, Irvine, J. Ronald Ignatuk, Foothill Ranch, and Michael S. Kelly for Alfonso G. De Grezia and Malynda A. De Grezia as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


BAXTER, J.

This matter comes to us after the Court of Appeal reversed an order of the trial court that denied the petition of defendant PacifiCare of California (PacifiCare) to compel arbitration. The central issue is whether PacifiCare waived its contractual right to arbitration pursuant to a clause contained in a health services contract with plaintiff Saint Agnes Medical Center (Saint Agnes). Relying on Bertero...

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