Eusterman v. Northwest Permanente, P.C.

Plaintiff, a physician, appeals a summary judgment in favor of defendants Northwest Permanente, P.C. (Northwest), plaintiffs former employer, and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest (Kaiser), a provider of managed care services. In essence, plaintiffs theory is that Northwest terminated his employment because of defendants’ concerns about his approval of time off for injured workers, his changes in other doctors’ diagnoses, and his efforts to obtain an osteopathic treatment for a patient, and that such concerns were motivated by finances, not medical judgment. Plaintiff claims that…