In what circumstances will a third party corporation be found to have acted in favour of a plaintiff in a personal injury action?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from In re Dixon, E049907, Super.Ct.No. IND083490 (Cal. App. 2011):

The factors enumerated in Schnabel are not present in the record before us. In Schnabel, the third-party corporation became "a partisan in the war" between the spouses and engaged in "blatant and egregious corporate favoritism." (Schnabel v. Superior Court, supra, 30 Cal.App.4th at pp. 760, 763.) In order to assist the husband, the corporation froze the husband's wages, refused to distribute accumulated earnings, and paid all of the husband's attorney's fees and costs, while using the same legal firm as the husband. The corporation also denied the wife access to corporate records. (Id. at pp. 763-764.)

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