California Court of Appeal

In a wrongful death and negligence action in which decedent was admitted to the emergency room at Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and died after she was transferred to another hospital, alleging that, because decedent was not a Kaiser member, she was treated differently than they would have treated a member and that the different treatment caused her death, the trial court's rejection of plaintiffs' enterprise theory of liability--under which the various hospital entities formed a single enterprise, and Health Plan hospital could be held liable for any breach of duty by Kaiser Hospitals or SCPMG because the three entities should legally be treated as a single entity--is affirmed where the court properly rejected the enterprise theory of liability.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/06/23

Judges

• ROTHSCHILD

Court

• California Court of Appeal

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