Segura-Sanchez v. Hospital General Menonita, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BESOSA, District Judge.

On May 24, 2013, the Court ordered the parties to submit simultaneous briefs discussing whether subject matter jurisdiction exists. (Docket No. 69.) Two jurisdictional issues have been raised. First, whether the forum selection clause signed by Victor Martinez-Valdez (“Mr. Martinez”) upon decedent Arquidiana Arvelo-Segura (“Ms. Arvelo”)’s admission to the hospital on February 24, 2011, is enforceable. Second, whether Mr. Martinez, as Ms. Arvelo’s widower, is an indispensable party who would destroy diversity jurisdiction because he is a forced heir,…