Veronica Paz Aguilar v. Catherine L. Jacobs

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs Veronica Paz Aguilar and Ernesto Zepeda Cordoba (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) filed this medical malpractice suit in January 2023, in Los Angeles County Superior Court. ECF 1-1 (Compl.). Defendant Eisner Health (“Eisner”) is a federally funded community “health center.” Since 2007, it has operated a 24/7 on-call panel of physicians for hospital-based and emergency obstetrical and gynecological (“OBGYN”) care at Defendant California Hospital Medical Center (“CHMC”). ECF 1-2 (Weinberg Decl.) ¶ 2, Ex. A. Eisner hired Defendants Kendra Segura, M.D., and Catherine Jacobs, CNM, as employees to staff the emergency OBGYN and related services at the time of the incident. ECF 1 ¶ 42; see also Weinberg Decl. ¶¶ 11-12, 14-15, Exs. J, K, M, N. Plaintiffs allege when Paz Aguilar presented to Defendants for treatment at CHMC on January 20, 2022, Defendants failed to provide proper treatment related to her pregnancy. Compl. ¶ 13. Specifically, she alleges that Defendants negligently discharged her without completing appropriate testing and without urgently delivering her baby on that date. Id. She delivered a stillborn child three days later. Id. The…