Nobody disputes that 85-year-old Lorraine Sullivan steered her Toyota Corolla into oncoming traffic, causing a crash that killed her longtime boyfriend, who was in the front passenger seat.

But she is not the one in a Santa Ana courtroom this week facing a wrongful death lawsuit for the 2010 accident.  Her doctor is.

Dr. Arthur Daigneault, who practices near the retirement community of Laguna Woods Village and caters to the elderly, is being sued by the family of William Powers. The internist had been treating Sullivan for dementia in the two years before the crash. At issue is whether he should have initiated a process to take away her driver's license — and whether by not doing so he bears some responsibility for the death.

Read more at the LA Times