PREMIER MEDICAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC. v. CALIFORNIA INS. GUARANTEE ASSN.

No. B195889.

163 Cal.App.4th 550 (2008)

PREMIER MEDICAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. CALIFORNIA INSURANCE GUARANTEE ASSOCIATION et al., Defendants and Respondents.

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

May 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Riley & Reiner, Ira Reiner, Raymond L. Riley and Douglas D. Winter for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, C. Guerry Collins, William S. Davis and Conrad V. Sison for Defendant and Respondent California Insurance Guarantee Association.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and John S. Poulos for Defendant and Respondent Pacific Secured Equities, Inc., dba Intercare Insurance Services.

Heggeness Sweet Simington & Patricio and Clifford D. Sweet III for Defendants and Respondents Insurance Company of the West and The Explorer Insurance Company.

Gray Duffy, John J. Duffy and Brian W. Ludeke for Defendant and Respondent HMI Associates, Inc.

Schaffer, Lax, McNaughton & Chen and John H. Horwitz for Defendant and Respondent Lehman Foods, Inc.

Roxborough, Pomerance & Nye, Michael B. Adreani and Craig Pynes for Defendant and Respondent Elite Personnel Services, Inc.

Parker, Kern, Nard & Wenzel and Richard J. Kern for Defendant and Respondent American All-Risk Loss Administrators.


OPINION

EPSTEIN, P. J.

The issue in these consolidated appeals is whether awards of attorney fees were too high. The awards were made to the prevailing defendants on an anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) special motion to strike pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (section 425.16). In an earlier published decision, we reversed a trial court order denying the special motion to strike and remanded for an award of fees...

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