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Nature of Suit Code: 310
Nature of Suit: Airplane Personal Injury
Cause of Action: 28:1441 Petition for Removal- Personal Injury

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CHARLES WOOD, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO., and 

DOES 1 through 25, inclusive, 

Defendants. 

No. 2:14-cv-01421-KJM-CKD 

ORDER 

On August 25, 2014, the Federal Insurance Company (“lien claimant”), the 

workers’ compensation insurance carrier for plaintiff, filed an application for lien in accordance 

with California Labor Code section 3856(b). (ECF 8.) No opposition has been filed. 

Section 3856(b) provides, in pertinent part: 

If the action [against a third party] is prosecuted by the employee 

alone, the court shall first order paid from any judgment for 

damages recovered the reasonable litigation expenses . . . together 

with a reasonable attorney’s fee . . . . After the payment of such 

expenses and attorney’s fee the court shall, on application of the 

employer, allow as a first lien against the amount of such judgment 

for damages, the amount of the employer’s expenditure for 

compensation together with any amounts to which he may be 

entitled as special damages . . . . 

Cal. Lab. Code § 2856(b). 

 Lien claimant avers it has “incurred an obligation to provider [sic] workers’ 

compensation benefits to plaintiff Charles Wood as a result of his work-related injuries incurred 

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on or about May 2, 2012,” and it has provided workers’ compensation “benefits to Charles Wood 

and is obligated to continue to do so.” (ECF 8 at 4 (Decl. of Stephen Snyder).) Accordingly, lien 

claimant’s application for a first lien in the amount to be determined after the payment of 

plaintiff’s litigation expenses and attorney’s fees is hereby GRANTED. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: September 16, 2014. 

 

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