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OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
RESOLUTION NO. 2932
WHEREAS this Board of Supervisors has carefully con-
sidered adoption of a policy regarding recovery of employer's
costs resulting from job incurred injuries to employees when
it is determined that there is third person liability;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT BY THIS BOARD RESOLVED THAT:
1 . The Office of the District Attorney is authorized
to review employee job incurred injury reports involving third
persons and to exercise his discretion in determining whether
there is liability on the part of the third person;
2. If it appears there is liability of a third per-
son, the Office of the District Attorney shall ascertain
whether the County shall initiate action in its own name or
file an application for an employer's lien in an action brought
by the employee through his own attorney;
3. If the County is to file an application for an
employer' s lien, the Office of the District Attorne is author-
ized to negotiate the fee (not to exceed 25 percent payable
under California Labor Code, Section 3860.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 14th day of April, 1964, by
the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors James P. Kenny, Mel F. Nielsen,
Thomas John Coll, Joseph S. Silva, Edmund A.
Linscheid.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
RESOLUTION NO. 2932