COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO v. CALDERON

No. E040923.

56 Cal.Rptr.3d 333 (2007)

148 Cal.App.4th 1103

COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Martin Zavala CALDERON et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeal of California, Fourth District, Division Two.

March 22, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis E. Wagner, Interim County Counsel, and Paul St. John, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Perona, Langer, Beck, Lallande & Serbin, Ronald Beck and Ellen R. Serbin, Long Beach, for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

McKINSTER, Acting P.J.

The Hospital Lien Act (HLA), which appears at Civil Code sections 3045.1 through 3045.6, provides that a hospital which provides emergency and ongoing care to a person injured by accident or through the negligent or wrongful conduct of another has a statutory lien, in the amount of the reasonable and necessary charges of the hospital, against any judgment, settlement or compromise received by the patient from a third person...

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