Wills

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division MYRA LOUISE WILLS, Case No. 25-cv-01948-LB

The plaintiff, ORDER COMPELLING

ARBITRATION AND STAYING CASE

v. Re: ECF No. 24 KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS, et al., 15 The defendants. 16 INTRODUCTION This is a medical-malpractice action brought by plaintiff Myra Wills, as conservator for her son Stephen Andrew Wills II, against defendants Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, and The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. (collectively, Kaiser). She claims that they committed malpractice and dependent adult abuse, in violation of state law, and violated the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), by discharging him prematurely to his mother’s care. Kaiser moves to compel arbitration based on an arbitration provision in Mr. Wills’s Kaiser Medical managed-health plan. The plaintiff opposes, arguing that no valid…