California Physicians Service, Inc. v. HealthPlan Services, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS SERVICE, Case No. 3:18-cv-03730-JD
INC.,
8 Plaintiff, ORDER RE PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION v. Re: Dkt. No. 151 HEALTHPLAN SERVICES, INC., et al., 11 Defendants.
12 In 2013, plaintiff California Physicians Service, which does business as Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield), outsourced patient enrollment, account management, billing, and other services to defendant Healthplan Services (HPS) under a Business Process Outsourcing Agreement (BPOA). Blue Shield found HPS’s performance of the services to be unsatisfactory in virtually every respect, and filed this action in June 2018 for breach of the BPOA. See Dkt. No. 1. After a few rounds of pleadings motions, and the Court’s dismissal of several claims, see Dkt. No. 73, the third amended complaint (TAC) is the operative complaint. Dkt. No. 111. One of the contract claims in the TAC relates to a “Parental Guaranty” that Blue Shield signed in 2013…