Ghadimi

INTRODUCTION

Plaintiffs Kamran Ghadimi, M.D., and Advanced Pain Treatment Medical Center sued ten individual defendants in nine separate cases, alleging that after defendants’ insurance failed to pay for medical treatments defendants received, defendants themselves owed the outstanding fees. The cases were deemed related, and one case was tried separately . The remaining eight cases are at issue in this appeal.1 Plaintiffs alleged defendants owed fees for treatments performed between 2010 and 2016. Proceeding to trial solely on plaintiffs’ quantum meruit theory, the parties stipulated to have a jury determine the reasonable value for each of the medical procedures plaintiffs performed. The court and parties were then to use those values to calculate what each defendant owed the plaintiffs based on the treatments each defendant received. During trial, defendants asserted orally and in written motions that some of plaintiffs’ claims were time-barred under

1 The defendants/appellants in this case are Raegan Garcia and Gregory Garcia (Super. Ct. L,A. County, 2017, No. NC061441; Ct. App. No. B301879); Sean Monge (Super. Ct. L.A. County, 2017, No. NC061501; Ct. App. No. B301883);…