Olson

Filed 11/23/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

RAQUEL OLSON, D079265

Plaintiff and Appellant,

v. (Super. Ct. No. 37-2018- 00051604-CU-MC-CTL)

LA JOLLA NEUROLOGICAL

ASSOCIATES et al.,

Defendants and Respondents.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Kenneth J. Medel, Judge. Affirmed. Kazerouni Law Group and Ryan L. McBride, for Plaintiff and Appellant. Hegeler & Anderson, Barton H. Hegeler, Storm P. Anderson, and Keshav S. Nair, for Defendants and Respondents. Dr. Frank Coufal and his solely owned professional corporation, La Jolla Neurological Associates (LJNA), hired an unaffiliated, third-party billing service to collect payments from patients and their insurers. Raquel Olson, the widow of a former patient, sued the doctor and his corporation (but not the third-party billing service) for unlawful debt collection under the Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the Rosenthal Act; Civ. Code, § 1788 et seq.).1 The trial court granted a defense motion for summary judgment on the ground that the doctor and…