Litigation
Apr. 28, 2011
What Is Not Collateral Source and What Is: A Difference That Matters
Misunderstanding the collateral source rule can be fatal to your client's case. By Will Jay Pirkey of the Los Angeles city attorney's office.
The collateral source rule continues to be one of the most misunderstood legal principles facing the legal community today to the detriment of counsel and their clients. Why that is may be attributed to counsel's failure to understand when insurance payments made to or on behalf of a plaintiff are not collateral source. A most recent example is the case of Garbell v. Conejo Hardwoods Inc., 2011 DJDAR 4966 (Cal. App. 2nd Dist. ...
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