30 doctors file suit against St. Joseph
30 doctors file suit against St. Joseph
Thirty California doctors in St. Joseph Medical Corp. recently filed a lawsuit against the medical group. The doctors claim that the group is robbing them of valuable patients and revenue by not allowing them to notify their patients when they leave the group. They are seeking general damages of more than $2 million and punitive damages.
Representatives from the physicians group say that the company violated state law by adding a provision that prohibits the doctors from notifying their patients when they end their contracts with St. Joseph. However, lawyers representing the medical group claim that health plans will not allow doctors to tell their patients to follow them, and they have become stricter in enforcing this policy.
An Orange County (CA) superior court judge refused the doctors’ request for an order temporarily restraining the group from terminating physicians who haven’t signed a new group contract. The plaintiff’s defense has filed an amended complaint.
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