Paramount General Hospital Co. v. National Medical Enterprises, Inc.

Action for damages and injunctive relief under the Unfair Practices Act (“the Act”). Plaintiffs Paramount General Hospital Company, a limited partnership, and Paramount General Hospital, Inc., appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant National Medical Enterprises, Inc., and various individual defendants, after the trial court sustained defendants’ general demurrers to plaintiffs’ second amended complaint without leave to amend.

Allegations of Complaint

Plaintiffs own and operate as a business, a hospital and adjoining medical office building in Paramount. For the “purpose of earning a profit” the partnership “supplies” office space in the medical building to doctors. Plaintiffs also supply the following services: answering service, direct communication facilities to the hospital, receptionist service, “specialized suite improvements,” radiological, pharmaceutical and other such services in the medical building; utilities; janitorial and security services, parking; and, in the adjoining hospital, laboratory, clinical testing, diagnostic, therapeutic and related facilities.

Defendants are plaintiffs’ competitors. When this action was filed, defendants were about to…