Loftus v. Eisenhower Medical Center

A Jury awarded Dr. Martinucci $11,441,559 against Southern California Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. Dr. Martinucci proved that the Defendants’ retaliated against him for attempting to improve patient care through uniform radiology procedures.

A jury found that Kaiser had a conflict of interest when they reported Dr. Strub to the medical board and then concurrently represented him in front of the same medical board resulting in the loss of his license.

A jury found that Dr. Chaugle was retaliated against for being a patient advocate by Valley Heart Associates Medical Group and that Doctor’s Medical Center of Modesto (Tenet) interfered with his employment relationship and intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon him. Dr. Chaugle raised concerns that emergent cardiac surgeries were being delayed and cardiac patients were being mixed with infected patients.