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HARROD v. COUNTRY OAKS PARTNERS, LLC

No. S276545.

MARK HARROD, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. COUNTRY OAKS PARTNERS, LLC, et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

March 28, 2024.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cole Pedroza, Kenneth R. Pedroza , Cassidy C. Davenport ; Buchalter, Harry W.R. Chamberlain II , Robert M. Dato ; Sun Mar Management Services, Trent Evans , Kevin Khachatryan , Julieta Y. Echeverria and Brittany A. Ortiz for Defendants and Appellants.

Tucker Ellis and Traci L. Shafroth for California Medical Association, California Dental Association and California Hospital Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Mark E. Reagan and Jeffrey Lin for California Association of Health Facilities as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Carroll, Kelly, Trotter & Franzen, David P. Pruett; and Fred J. Hiestand for the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel and the Civil Justice Association of California as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Lanzone Morgan, Ayman R. Mourad , Alexander S. Rynerson , Suzanne M. Voas ; BraunHagey & Borden, Matthew Borden and Kory J. DeClark for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Stiller Law Firm and Ari J. Stiller for Consumer Attorneys of California, Compassion & Choices, American Association for Justice and Public Justice as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

William Alvarado Rivera; and Eric M. Carlson for AARP, AARP Foundation, Justice in Aging, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, California Long-Term Care Ombudsman Association and The National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Justice Jenkins authored the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice Guerrero and Justices Corrigan, Liu, Kruger, Groban, and Evans concurred.

Under California's Health Care Decisions Law (Prob. Code, § 4600 et seq.),1 a principal may appoint a health care agent to make health care decisions should the principal later lack capacity to make them. In this case, a health care agent signed two contracts with a skilled nursing...

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