On August 12, 2021, the California Supreme Court issued its opinion in Natarajan v. Dignity Health, No. S259364.

Many older Americans have insufficient income and assets to protect them through retirement.

Medical professionals who are subject to adverse actions following peer review often seek to sue the peer review participants (including the individual peer-reviewing physicians, medical staff leadership and the hospital), casting themselves as quality-of-care advocates that have been mistreated or ...

Manatt secured a major victory for Dignity Health’s St. Mary Medical Center on November 17 when the California Court of Appeal affirmed the dismissal of the hospital’s medical staff’s writ petition.

Manatt secured an important victory for its client Dignity Health, a California-based nonprofit hospital system, on October 18, when the California Court of Appeal affirmed dismissal of a physician’s damages complaint against Dignity under the anti-SLAPP statute.

Manatt secured an important win for its client Dignity Health on August 12.

Manatt has successfully defended Dignity Health’s St. Mary Medical Center in a lawsuit brought by the hospital’s medical staff seeking a writ of mandate and injunctive relief.