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2945 Doctors who rendered treatment for industrial injuries, for which they were not timely and fully paid by the workers' compensation carriers were limited to workers' compensation remedies on claims against the carriers based on insurer activity intrinsic to the workers' compensation process and closely connected to the payment of benefits, such as abuse of process, fraud, interference with business relationships, and unfair competition, but were not limited to workers' compensation remedies on claims based on conduct falling outside the workers' compensation claims process, such as RICO and Cartwright Act violations or conspiracy to put plaintiffs out of business.CitationVACANTI v SCIF (WC Conspiracy) 24 C4 800 [See: LabC 3600 etseq; B&PC 17200; Snyder v Michael's 16 C4 991, T/AT 12/97; Johns-Manville v Superior Court 27 C3 465; Fermino v Fedco 7 C4 701, T/AT 6/94; Marsh v Superior Court 49 C3 1; Unruh v Truck Ins 7 C3 616; Magliulo v Superior Court 47 CA3 760]
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