Derrick v. Ontario Community Hospital

Opinion

KAUFMAN, J.

Defendant Ontario Community Hospital (“Hospital”) demurred generally to plaintiffs’ first amended complaint. The trial court sustained Hospital’s demurrer without leave to amend and rendered judgment dismissing the action as to Hospital. Plaintiffs appeal from the judgment of dismissal.

Also named as defendants in the action and those as to whom the action is still pending are Dawn Marie Heneman (“Dawn”), a minor, her mother Carol Heneman, Dr. Simon Klitenic, Dawn’s attending physician, and a number of fictitiously named defendants.

The issue on appeal is whether plaintiffs…