Din

BACKGROUND

I.

“Because this matter comes to us on demurrer, we take the facts from plaintiff’s complaint, the allegations of which are deemed true for the limited purpose of determining whether plaintiff has stated a viable cause of action.” (Stevenson v. Superior Court (1997) 16 Cal.4th 880, 885.) In March 2018, the Medical Staff opened an administrative investigation into Din. The Medical Staff closed the investigation on May 20, 2019, without taking any adverse action. On May 29, 2019, Din received a letter from the Medical Staff’s counsel stating that “any investigations pending against him had been closed.” On July 2, 2019, Din’s attorney had a conversation with the Medical Staff’s counsel in which the Medical Staff’s counsel made several representations, including: (1) “There is no investigation pending against [Din]”; (2) “There are no restrictions on [Din’s clinical] privileges”; (3) Din “is in good standing with the [h]ospital and Medical Staff”; (4) if Din decided “to resign or let his privileges lapse at the [h]ospital, [Din] would not suffer any negative consequences, and such actions were not reportable events”; (5) the Medical Staff’s counsel “was unaware that…