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  • Diana Blum, MD vs Sutter Health et al Wrongful Termination Unlimited(36)  document preview
  • Diana Blum, MD vs Sutter Health et al Wrongful Termination Unlimited(36)  document preview
  • Diana Blum, MD vs Sutter Health et al Wrongful Termination Unlimited(36)  document preview
  • Diana Blum, MD vs Sutter Health et al Wrongful Termination Unlimited(36)  document preview
						
                                

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LINDBERGH PORTER, Bar No. 100091 LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C. 333 Bush Street, 34th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: 415.433.1940 Fax No.: 415.399.8490 MAIKO NAKARAI-KANIVAS, Bar No. 271710 LITTLER MENDELSON, P.C. 1255 Treat Boulevard, Suite 600 Walnut Creek, CA 94597 Telephone: 925.932.2468 \IO Fax No.: 925.946.9809 Attorneys for Defendants SUTTER HEALTH and PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION MARCIE ISOM FITZSIMMONS, Bar No. 226906 HIEU T. WILLIAMS, Bar No. 280585 GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP 275 Battery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: 415.986.5900 Fax No.: 415.986.8054 Attorneys for Defendant PALO ALTO FOUNDATION MEDICAL GROUP SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA DIANA P. BLUM, M.D., Case No. 115CV277582 Plaintiff, DECLARATION OF MAIKO NAKARAI- KANIVAS IN SUPPORT OF v. DEFENDANTS’ JOINT OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S MOTION IN LIMINE T0 SUTTER HEALTH, a California EXCLUDE JOINT VENTURE TESTIMONY corporation; PALO ALTO FOUNDATION FROM NATHAN KAUFMAN MEDICAL GROUP, a California corporation; PALO ALTO MEDICAL Date: January 8, 2018 FOUNDATION, a California corporation; Time: 8:45 a.m. and DOES 1 through 20, Dept; 16 Judge: Hon. Drew Takaichi Defendants. Complaint Filed: March 4, 2015 FAC Filed: August 7, 2015 28 LITTLE? MENDELSON P c Case No. 115CV277582 333 BUSH SIREEI NH FLOOR NAKARAI DECL, ISO DEFS‘ JOINT OPPOSITION TO PLTF’S MOTION IN LIMINE TO EXCLUDE JOTNT SAN FRANCISCO CA 9:104 «5m 1910 VENTURE TESTIMONY FROM NATHAN KAUFMAN 1,MAIKO NAKARAl-KANIVAS, declare: l. 1 am a Shareholder with the law firm of Littler Mendelson, P.C., counsel for Defendants Sutter Health and Palo Alto Medical Foundation (“PAMF”) in this action. I am licensed to practice law in the State of California and appear in the above-captioned matter. All of the information set forth herein is based upon my personal and firsthand knowledge, or from review of the file of this matter in the regular course of representing my clients. If called and sworn as a OO\IO\ witness, 1could and would competently testify hereto. 2. A true and correct copy of Defendants’ expert disclosures (without attachments) which were served on May 30, 2017, is attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated 00 l by reference herein. 11 3. The deposition of Defendants’ expert witness Nathan Kaufman was taken on 12 July 6, 2017 before a certified court reporter. A true and correct copy of excerpts from Mr. 13 Kaufman’s deposition transcript are attached hereto as Exhibit B and incorporated by reference 14 herein. 15 I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the 16 foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 7th day of January, 2018 at Walnut Creek, California. 17 flM—Nv 18 MAIKO NAKARAI-KANIVAS 19 F1rmw1de15214535410615981049 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 UTILER MENDELSON P C 2~ Case No. 115CV277582 333 BUSH SWEET 16TH FLOOR NAKARAI DECL, ISO DEFS’ JOINT OPPOSITION TO PLTF’S MOTION IN LIMINE TO EXCLUDE JOINT SAN FRANClSCO CA 9610A 41543319“) VENTURE TESTIMONY FROM NATHAN KAUFMAN EXHIBIT A LINDBERGH PORTER, Bar No. 100091 LITTLER MENDELSON, RC. 333 Bush Street 34th Floor San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: 415.433.1940 Fax No.: 415.399.8490 MAIKO NAKARAI-KANIVAS, Bar No. 271710 LITTLER MENDELSON, RC. 1255 Treat Boulevard Suite 600 Walnut Creek, CA 94597 Telephone: 925.932.2468 Fax No.: 925.946.9809 Attorneys for Defendants SUTTER HEALTH and PALO ALTO MEDICAL 10 FOUNDATION 11 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA 12 COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA 13 DIANA P. BLUM, M.D., Case No. 115~CV—277582 14 Plaintiff, DEF ENDANTS SUTTER HEALTH 15 AND PALO ALTO MEDICAL v. FOUNDATION’S EXPERT 16 WITNESS DISCLOSURE AND SUTTER HEALTH, a California EXPERT WITNESS 17 corporation, PALO ALTO FOUNDATION DECLARATION MEDICAL GROUP, a California 18 corporation, PALO ALTO MEDICAL Complaint Filed: March 4, 2015 FOUNDATION, a California corporation, FAC Filed: August 7, 2015 19 and DOES 1through 20, Trial Date: July 17,2017 20 Defendants. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 fits? MENOELSON PC 3:: Em smi Case No. lIS-CV—277582 ammo: Hanan» CA sum San 115031940 SUTTER HEALTH & PAMF'S EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE TO ALL PARTIES AND THEIR ATTORNEYS OF RECORD: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to Defendant PALO ALTO FOUNDATION MEDICAL GROUP’s (“PAFMG”) Demand for Exchange of Expert Witness Information, and California Code of Civil Procedure section 2034.210 er seq., Defendants SUTTER HEALTH and PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION (“PAMF”) (collectively, “Defendants”) hereby provide notice that they expert to offer in evidence at trial the expert opinions ofthe following individuals: 1. Bryan D, Bohman, MD. 2600 El Camino Real, Suite 206 Palo Alto, CA 94306 2. Carol Hyland 4120 Canyon Road 10 Lafayette, CA 94549 11 3. Nathan Kaufman 11440 West Bernando Court #155 12 San Diego, CA 92127 13 Mark Lipian, 4. M.D., Ph.D. 50 California Street, Suite 1500 14 San Francisco, CA 94111 15 Charles Mahla, 5, PhD. 555 University Avenue, Suite 294 16 Sacramento, CA 95825 17 Defendants reserve the right under California Code of Civil Procedure section 1s 2034.210 el seq, as well as any other constitutional, statutory or common law rights Defendants may 19 have, to call as expert witnesses at trial any of the experts designated by any party, to augment or 20 supplement their expert witness list,to call experts not listed above as rebuttal witnesses to impeach 21 the testimony of any other expert witness testimony offered at trial, and/or call any other expert 22 witness at trial, and to amend the attached Declaration with respect to the general substance of 23 anticipated testimony of the witness designated. 24 25 Dated: May 30,2017 //$72 LINDBERGH . PORTER MAIKO NAKARAI-KANIVAS 26 LITTLER MENDELSON, PC. Attorneys for Defendants 27 SUTTER HEALTH and PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION 28 «HER MENDELSOH F C 13mm Sum Case No. lIS-CV-277582 now 341:: Frmsw San CA 94104 m 1910 ‘15 SUTTER HEALTH & PAMF'S EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE EXPERT WITNESS DECLARATION I, Maiko Nakarai-Kanivas, declare: l. I am a Shareholder with the law firm of Littler Mendelson, P.C., counsel of record for Defendants Sutter Health and Palo Alto Medical Foundation (“PAMF”) (collectively, “Defendants") in the above-captioned matter. I make this declaration as required by California Code of Civil Procedure section 2034.260. 2. Defendants presently expect to offer in evidence at trial, by either oral or deposition testimony, the expert opinions of the following retained experts: Bryan Bohman, M.D., Carol I-Iyland, Nate Kaufman, Mark Lipian, M.D., Ph.D., and Charles Mahla, Ph.D. Each of these 10 individuals have agreed to testify at trial,and will be sufficiently familiar with the pending action to 11 submit to a meaningful oral deposition concerning the specific testimony, including any opinions 12 and their bases, he or she is expected to give at trial. 13 3. Bryan Bohman, M.D., 2600 El Camino Real, Suite 206, Palo Alto, CA 14 94306: 15 a. Brief Statement of Qualifications: Dr. Bohman is the Chief Medical 16 Officer at University Healthcare Alliance and the Associate Chief Medical Officer at Stanford 17 Healthcare. He isalso a Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Stanford 1s University, and a Co—Director of Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Excellence Leadership Training 19 program. Dr. Bohman holds a BS in Psychobiology from the University of California at Davis, and 20 an MD. from the University of Chicago. A true and correct copy of Dr. Bohman’s Curriculum 21 Vitae is attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated by reference herein. 22 b. Brief Statement of General Substance of Testimony the Expert Is 23 Expected To Give: Dr. Bohman is expected to testify regarding the policies, procedures and 24 practices that Plaintiff allegedly protested and/or that Plaintiff claims constitute unfair or unlawful 25 business practices, including whether such policies, procedures and practices impaired a physician’s 26 ability to provide medically appropriate health care to his or her patients, or otherwise interfered 27 with or harmed patient care. Dr. Bohman is also expected to testify regarding whether Plaintiff‘s 28 alleged advocacy was “medically appropriate," and whether Plaintiff could have reasonably believed MLER MENDELSON Pc 650 Camarma Suns! 2. Case No. IlS—CV-277582 21»: Flow saxFraminCA was 2593 SUTTER HEALTH & PAMF‘S EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE M5 113 1940 that the policies, procedures or practices impaired her ability to provide medically appropriate health care to her patients. Dr. Bohman may also be asked to review any opinions proffered by Plaintiff‘s expert witnesses, and opine regarding the work product of Plaintiff‘s expert witnesses and/or offer his own opinions in rebuttal. e. W Dr. Bohman’s for consulting with the retaining attorney is $500 per hour. fee for providing deposition testimony and 4. Carol Hyland, 4120 Canyon Road, Lafayette, CA 94549: a. Brief Statement of Qualifications: Ms. Hyland is a vocational and rehabilitation consultant. She holds a B.A. in American Intellectual History from the University of 10 California at Irvine, and an MS. in Rehabilitation Counseling from California State University. A 11 true and correct copy of Ms. Hyland’s Curriculum Vitae is attached hereto as Exhibit B and 12 incorporated by reference herein. 13 b. Brief Statement of General Substance of Testimony the Expert Is 14 Expected To Give: Ms. Hyland is expected to testify regarding vocational rehabilitation issues, 15 including the reasonableness of Plaintiffsjob search and mitigation efforts, alternative positions and 16 what they would have paid, and the labor market relevant to Plaintiff‘s Ms. case. Hyland may also 17 be asked to review any opinions proffered by Plaintiffs expert witnesses, and opine regarding the 18 work product of Plaintiff‘s expert witnesses and/or offer her own opinions in rebuttal. 19 c. Hourly Fee: Ms. Hyland’s hourly fee for providing deposition 20 testimony is $500 per hour, and $275 per hour for consulting with the retaining attorney. 21 5. Nathan Kaufman, 11440 West Bemando Court #155, San Diego, CA 92127: 22 a. Brief Statement of Qualifications: Mr. Kaufman is a strategic advisor, 23 executive and negotiator in the healthcare industry, and the Managing Director of Kaufman Strategic 24 Advisors. He holds a BA. in Psychology from Emory University and an MS. in Health Systems 25 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. A true and correct copy of Mr. Kaufman's Curriculum 26 Vitae is attached hereto as Exhibit C and incorporated by reference herein. 27 28 /// unit: usmstson. Ft: carom stint 650 3. Case No. llS—CV-277582 20mm SmHanan CA 94t 2651 SUTTER HEALTH & PAMF‘S EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE us in me b. Brief Statement of General Substance of Testimony the Expert Is Expected To Give: Mr. Kaufman is expected to testify regarding the foundation practice model in California, including the purpose and organization of the foundation-medical group structure under California Health and Safety Code section 1206(1), the consistency of Defendants’ operations with the requirements and intent of Section 1206(l), and the differences between the foundation-medical group structure under Section 1206(l)/Defendants’ operations and a joint venture. Mr. Kaufman is also expected to testify regarding the policies, procedures and practices that Plaintiff allegedly protested as impairing her ability to provide medically appropriate health care, and/or that Plaintiff claims constitute unfair or unlawful business practices. Mr. Kaufman may also be asked to review 10 any opinions proffered by Plaintiff‘s expert witnesses, and opine regarding the work product of 11 Plaintiff’s expert witnesses and/or offer his own opinions in rebuttal. 12 c. Hourly Fee: Mr. Kaufman’s fee for providing deposition testimony 13 and for consulting with the retaining attorney is $650 per hour and $6,500 per day when traveling. 14 6. Mark Lipian, M.D., Ph.D., 50 California Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, 15 CA 941 1 l: 16 a. Brief Statement oualifications: Dr. Lipian is a clinical and forensic 17 psychiatrist. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and 18 Biobehavioral Sciences at U.C.L.A. School of Medicine, and the Chief of Psychiatry ofthe Forensic 19 Outpatient Services for the County of Orange Health Care Agency. Dr. Lipian holds an A.B. in 20 Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S., M.Phil, and PhD in Psychology 21 from Yale University, and an MD. from Yale University School of Medicine. A true and correct 22 copy of Dr, Lipian’s Curriculum Vitae is attached hereto as Exhibit D and incorporated by reference 23 herein. 24 b. Brief Statement of General Substance of Testimony the Expert Is 25 Expected To Give: Dr. Lipian is expected to testify regarding the nature, extent and causation of 26 Plaintiff’s alleged emotional and psychological injuries, Plaintiffs medical and psychological 27 history, and possible alternate causes of Plaintiff’s alleged emotional distress or other claimed 28 damages. Dr. Lipian is also expected to testify regarding his independent psychiatric examination of unit! MENDEtsoM pc sum 650 Cantorma 4, Case No. llS-CV-277582 20121q SunHananCA 94mm: SUTTER HEALTH & PAMF'S EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE usm 'm Plaintiff and his diagnostic conclusions reached based on examination of Plaintiff and related records. Dr. Lipian may also be asked to review any opinions proffered by Plaintiffs expert fiLAJN witnesses, and opine regarding the work product of Plaintiff’s expert witnesses and/or offer his own opinions in rebuttal. c. W A true and correct copy for consulting with the retaining attorney is of Dr. Dr. $725 Lipian’s report is attached hereto Lipian’s per hour. fee for providing deposition as Exhibit E. testimony and 7. Charles Mahla, 555 University Avenue, Suite 294, Sacramento, CA 95825: a. Brief Statement of Qualifications: Dr. Mahla is an economist. He is a Managing Director and the Sacramento Office Head at Econ One Research, Inc. Dr. Mahla holds a 10 B.A. in Economics from Lafayette College, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North 11 Carolina at Chapel Hill. A true and correct copy of Dr. Mahla‘s Curriculum Vitae is attached hereto 12 as Exhibit F and incorporated by reference herein. 13 b. Brief Statement of General Substance of Testimony the Expert Is 14 Expected To Give: Dr. Mahla is expected to testify regarding economic damages claimed by 15 Plaintiff, including Plaintiffs alleged lostearnings and benefits, both past and future. Dr. Mahla is 16 also expected to testify regarding Plaintiff’s mitigation efforts. Dr. Mahla may also be asked to 17 review any opinions proffered by Plaintiff‘s expert witnesses, and opine regarding the work product 18 of Plaintiff‘s expert witnesses and/or offer his own opinions in rebuttal. 19 c. Hourly Fee: Dr. Mahla‘s fee for providing deposition testimony and 20 for consulting with the retaining attorney is $560 per hour. 21 8. Defendants reserve the right to call as witnesses any of the individuals who 22 have treated or examined Plaintiff, including for conditions any related to her alleged emotional 23 distress and/or as her general treating physician. 24 9. Defendants also reserve the right to call as an expert witness any person who 25 has been deposed in this case or otherwise identified as a witness, to the extent that such testimony 26 may be considered expert testimony. 27 28 / // 1mm NEWEtsoNP C 550 Calder“ 212mm strut 5. Case No. IlS-CV-277582 Finch» San CA 94105 2693 SUTTER HEALTH & PAMF‘S EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE m 415 154: 10. Defendants further reserve the right to call at trial any expert witness in rebuttal to any expert witness disclosed by Plaintiff. In addition, Defendants reserve the right to supplemental this disclosure as permitted under Code of Civil Procedure section 2034.210 et seq. I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed this 30th day of May, 2017 at Walnut Creek, California. AM»- MAIKO’NAKARAI-KANIVAS 10 11 Finmwde‘147544098 2 061598 1049 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1mm MEwELsouPC sun: 550 C-Horml 6. Case No. llS—CV-277582 20mm 5.1 FVWim.CA woe 2553 SUTTER HEALTH & PAMF’S EXPERT WITNESS DISCLOSURE "54131540 EXHIBIT B SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA —-—oOo-—- DIANA P. BLUM, M.D., Plaintiff, \Jmmpp—I vs. No. 115CV277582 SUTTER HEALTH, a California corporation; PALO ALTO FOUNDATION MEDICAL GROUP, INC , a California corporation; PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION, a California corporation; 10 and DOES 1 through 20, ll Defendants. 12 13 DEPOSITION OF NATHAN S. KAUFMAN 14 San Jose, California 15 Thursday, July 6, 2017 16 Pages 1 through 19, inclusive and 17 Pages 24 through 74, inclusive 185 (PAGES 20 THROUGH 23, INCLUSIVE, OF THE DEPOSITION OF 19 NATHAN S. KAUFMAN HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED CONFIDENTIAL AND ARE BOUND SEPARATELY.) 20 21 Reported by: ADRIENNE L. ANDREINI 22 C.S R. NO. 4804 23 24 25 Page 1 Hahn & Bowersock, A Veritcxt Company 8006603187 Q. Any other educa— -- formal education after that? A. That's it. Q. From 1982 to 1984, your CV says you were vice president of marketing in Los Angeles, California, but I don't see the name of the organization. A. It was National Medical Enterprises, which is a hospital chain now known as Tenet, T-e-n—e—t. Q. Okay. Oh, I see the entry above that, from '84 10 to '86, then. ll You, then, became senior vice president of 12 marketing physician services; right? 13 A. Yes. I'm not really great with dates. That 14 previous date may have been with Hospital Corporation of 15 America. 16 Q. Okay. 17 On Page 1 of your CV, at the bottom, it 18 provides nine bullet points of areas of specialization, 19 and one of those is physician joint-venture structuring and negotiation. Tell me what physician ioint—yenture structuring and negotiation is. A1 Physicians and businesspeople. or iust N pk physicians alone. may desire to co—own a business. such N U‘I as a surqerv center or an imaging center. and Page 9 Hahn & Bowersock, A Veritext Company 8006603187 IN W W long you as Q. just W t_h.0.L__ventures. with imaging anyone And said how in W centers. do the you "co—ownership" so I've country. define, been and when then doing you you it put probably t— referred -- when to as it as "ventures"? 10 Do you use the terminology "co-ownership" and ll "joint ventures" interchangeably? 12 A. Yes. 13 Q. And can you tell me what a joint venture is. 14 MS. WILLIAMS: Objection. Calls for a legal 15 conclusion. 16 MS. NAKARAI—KANIVAS: Join. 17 THE WITNESS: A joint venture is a business 18 that is co-owned by at least two parties that share in 19 the cash flow or liabilities in that venture, based on their ownership or equity in the s- -— in that venture. MS. BARTA: Q; And from where did you gain the understanding of that definition of a joint venture? Ay It's a common definition that's been used in healthcare since the 12§Os. N U1 Qy I quess my question goes more to- What type of Page 10 Hahn & Bowersock, A Veritext Company 8006603187 training or eoereework or what have you gene in terms of educatinq yourself on what that term "ioint venture" means in the -— as you've iust described it? Ag When I started structuring join; ventures. they were relatively new. As a result;I I eetually was the 1m educator of hew te strucgure joint venguree, I taught |\1 courses for the American College of Healthcare Executives in how to structure these ventures. Q. Did you ever teach lawyers how to do it? 10 A. It depends how you define ”teach." 11 Q. In the way that you just used it before that 12 when you said you taught educators. 13 A. I believe that there were hospital general 14 counsels in my classes when I taught them. 15 Q. Where were your classes that those hospital 16 counsels would have been in? 17 A. For 20 years, I taught breakout sessions for 18 an organization called the Governance Institute that 19 helped programs all over the country. I also taught a 20 number of courses for the American College of Healthcare 21 Executives —- which is also known as "ACHE" —- again. all over the country. And one of the top things that I covered in my classes was structuring ioint ventures. N .5 Qy De yQu have any fermal legal treining? N U'I A. No. Page 11 Hahn & Bowersock, A Veritext Company 8006603187 What did you mean by "co-owned"? MS. WILLIAMS: Objection. Misstates testimony. MS. NAKARAI—KANIVAS: Join. THE WITNESS: Let me correct. I said "by at least two parties." MS. BARTA: Q. Okay. So. tell me again your definition of a joint venture. AA It is a business that is co—owned by at least two parties where the gash flow or liabilities are distributed based on the ownership interest in that venture or business. Q. And is there a requirement that that structure be set forth in formal documentation? MS. WILLIAMS: Objection. THE WITNESS: Yeah. MS. WILLIAMS: Calls for a legal conclusion. MS. NAKARAI—KANIVAS: Join. MS. WILLIAMS: Vague. MS. NAKARAI—KANIVAS: Join. THE WITNESS: Yes. MS. BARTA: Q. And what requires that it be set forth in formal documentation? MS. WILLIAMS: Vague. MS. NAKARAI-KANIVAS: Join. Page 14 Hahn & Bowersock, A Veritext Company 8006603187 MS. BARTA: Q. What did you mean by "sponsors of the Foundation"? A. The Foundation is, essentially, a subsidiary of the health system. Q. Is it your understanding, based on the fact that the Foundation is a subsidiary of Sutter Health,