Personal Injury Law

Calif. Reforms Signed into Law

By Edward Bills

Two personal injury bills were signed into law by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The first, known as the “Good Samaritan” bill, provides liability protection for those who stop and render aid at the scene of an accident, and was passed in response to the California Supreme Court?s earlier ruling that liability only extended to trained responders. Assembly Bill 470 also became law, allowing lawyers to receive their clients? records directly from insurance companies, changing prior legislation that only permitted companies to provide records to the injured person.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on August 18, 2009 (boomark / email).