Norried

I. BACKGROUND

Darrell was a patient of defendant Venice Family Clinic. Defendant Ortiz, a physician’s assistant, treated Darrell on two occasions in July and August 2017, including by prescribing

1 Defendant Venice Family Clinic is affiliated with the University of California. We refer to Venice Family Clinic and the Regents of the University of California collectively as the Clinic. We refer to the Clinic and individual defendants Ernest Ortiz, Coley King, D.O., Blanca Andres, M.D., Karen Lamp, M.D., Margarita Loeza, M.D., Gilmore Chung, M.D., Kayla Pang, and Ricardo Rubio collectively as defendants. Another individual defendant, Jay Lee, M.D., was dismissed from the lawsuit after the trial court entered judgment in favor of the other defendants. Wendy did not notice an appeal from the dismissal, and Dr. Lee is not a party to this appeal.

2 certain medication. Darrell died of hypertensive heart disease in September 2017. This lawsuit and two others followed, with David representing the plaintiffs (including himself) in each. We begin with a brief summary of the two other cases.

A. Related Litigation In Norried v. Ortiz, Sacramento County Superior Court No. 2020-00291405,…