Sobalvarro

BACKGROUND

The Parties and Paul Kranz, a Participant In 2007, plaintiff was living in Nicaragua, where she met Paul Kranz, an attorney practicing civil litigation in the Bay Area, meeting through the nonprofit of which he was the executive director. Kranz’s partner’s nephew is also the “half-brother of [plaintiff’s] three sons.” In 2012, plaintiff moved to California and began working as a dental assistant in San Francisco. Kranz found her and her sons an apartment “just down about a block” from his home in Albany “so that they would be close.” Kentfield is an acute care short-term rehabilitation hospital in Kentfield, Vibra its corporate parent. And from 2003 at least until the time of trial in 2023, Orleans was a certified nursing assistant employed at Kentfield. Plaintiff’s 2015 Stroke On September 15, 2015, plaintiff, then 34 years old, suffered a “very serious” hemorrhagic stroke at home. Around 9:15 a.m. that morning, one of her sons rang Kranz’s doorbell and told him that he had tried unsuccessfully “to wake his mom up.” Kranz went to plaintiff’s apartment and, not “able to rouse her at all, called 911. Plaintiff was taken to Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, and on October…