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It is worth noting that situations similar to those described in this medical malpractice case could just as easily occur at any of the healthcare facilities in the area, such as Kaiser Permanente, UC Davis Medical Center, Mercy, Methodist, or Sutter.
For more information you are welcome to contact Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins.
SACRAMENTO COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
Plaintiffs, MALYIA JEFFERS by her Guardian Ad Litem, THERESE ADAMS, CLPF, RYAN JEFFERS AND LEAH YANG, allege against CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE WEST dba METHODIST HOSPITAL OF SACRAMENTO, CYNTHIA R. MYAS, CHRISTOPHER SCHAAL, JEFF FITE, SURJIT NIJJAR, GREGORY R. ROSELLINI, EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS MEDICAL GROUP, INC., and DOES 1 through 100, as follows:
FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION
(Medical Malpractice – Against All Defendants)
This complaint is properly filed in Sacramento County because the events and injuries described herein occurred in said county and the defendants’ principle place of business is in said county.
The true names and capacities, whether individual, corporate, associate, or otherwise, of
defendants, DOES 1 through 100, are unknown to plaintiffs who therefore sue said defendants by such fictitious names and will ask leave to amend this complaint when the true names and
capacities have been ascertained. Plaintiffs are informed and believe, and thereon allege on such information and belief, that each of the fictitiously named defendants is responsible in some manner for the occurrences herein alleged, either as physicians, surgeons, anesthetists, nurses, other medical practitioners, pharmacists, hospitals or hospital attendants, ambulance companies or attendants, or manufacturers, suppliers, sellers, or distributors or otherwise, and said defendants negligently acted or failed to act in one or more of said occupations or businesses, which negligence proximately caused plaintiffs’ injuries as herein alleged.
Plaintiffs are uncertain as to the manner or function of said defendants, whether as physicians, surgeons, anesthetists, nurses, other medical practitioners, pharmacists, hospitals or hospital attendants, ambulance companies or attendants, or manufacturers, suppliers, sellers or distributors, or otherwise, and plaintiffs pray leave to amend this complaint to insert therein the true names, capacities, functions, occupations and businesses of said defendants when the same are ascertained. (See Part 2 of 7.)
For more information you are welcome to contact Sacramento personal injury lawyer, Moseley Collins.