Samaritan Health System v. Superior Court

WEISBERG, Judge.

¶ 1 Samaritan Health Systems (“Samaritan”) filed this special action after the trial court denied its motion for summary judgment which was based, in part, on its alleged statutory immunity from this lawsuit. Dr. Edward L. Schwartz (“Schwartz”) brought the underlying suit seeking damages for breach of contract and wrongful interference with prospective contractual relations (“wrongful interference”). His claims were based upon Samaritan’s failure to afford him either notice or a hearing, as required by the Samaritan Health Systems Peer Review Bylaws (“Bylaws”), when it…