Hurtado v. Superior Court

Hurtado v. Superior Court (1974) 11 Cal.3d 574, was a wrongful death action arising from a collision in California involving three automobiles driven by residents of California and Mexico. (Id. at p. 578.) The choice-of-law issue involved the amount of tort damages. Hurtado concluded that Mexico had no interest in the application of its law limiting the amount of damages in a wrongful death action to the benefit of defendants who were not residents of Mexico, so there was no true conflict and the measure of damages of California, as the forum state, should apply. (Id. at pp. 580-582.)