Rodriguez v. American International Insurance Co. of Puerto Rico

OPINION AND ORDER

PIERAS, Senior District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Before the Court is the issue of whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (“EMTALA”) applies to Puerto Rico’s “Centros de Diagnóstico y Tratamiento” (hereinafter “CDTs”), an issue of first impression before this Court. Plaintiffs in this case are Joan Rodriguez, Domingo Diaz Rojas, and their conjugal partnership. On March 3, 2001, Plaintiffs’ four month old daughter, Lilliam Diaz Rodriguez, was rushed to the Corozal CDT after she vomited in church. She arrived at the same in respiratory…