Stanford Health Care v. Trustmark Services Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

STANFORD HEALTH CARE,

Case No. 22-cv-03946-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO DISMISS TRUSTMARK SERVICES COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

15 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Stanford Health Care (“Stanford”) filed this diversity action against Defendants Trustmark Health Benefits, Inc. (“Trustmark”),1 and The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. (“TCW”). In the operative First Amended Complaint (“FAC”), Plaintiff avers it provided medical services to beneficiaries of health insurance plans sponsored by TCW and administered by Trustmark, but that Defendants failed to pay the full amounts billed by Plaintiff. The FAC raises two claims for relief against each Defendant: one for breach of implied contract, and one for quantum meruit. Trustmark and TCW have each separately moved to dismiss the FAC in its entirety — the former under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and…