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Parties Involved:
Ronald Cordova
Defendant
Allen Faron
Plaintiff
Nancy Faron
Plaintiff
John Kelsey
Defendant
Kevin Molander
Defendant
St. Joseph Health System
Defendant
St. Joseph Hospital
Defendant
United States of America
Defendant

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STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] ORDER FOR FILING AMENDED COMPLAINT 

Fabrice N. Vincent (State Bar No. 160780) 

Kent L. Klaudt (State Bar No. 183903) 

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339 

Telephone: (415) 956-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008 

e-mail: fvincent@lchb.com 

e-mail: kklaudt@lchb.com 

Attorneys for Plaintiff Allen Faron 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

ALLEN FARON, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL; ST. JOSEPH 

HEALTH SYSTEM; KEVIN 

MOLANDER, M.D.; JOHN KELSEY, 

M.D.; RONALD CORDOVA, M.D.; and 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. CGC-07-5602 SBA (related to C 

06-06662 SBA) 

STIPULATION AND [PROPOSED] 

ORDER FOR FILING AMENDED 

COMPLAINT

IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between Plaintiff ALLEN FARON and Defendant 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, through their respective attorneys of record, that Plaintiff 

ALLEN FARON may file a First Amended Complaint, a copy of which is attached hereto. 

The purpose of the amendment is to make certain changes requested by counsel for the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, including dropping certain claims that were dismissed by the 

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CIVIL COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

OAKLAND DIVISION 

ALLEN FARON, 

 Plaintiff, 

v. 

ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL; ST. JOSEPH 

HEALTH SYSTEM; KEVIN 

MOLANDER, M.D.; JOHN KELSEY, 

M.D.; RONALD CORDOVA, M.D.; and 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; 

inclusive, 

Defendants. 

CASE NO. CGC-07-5602 SBA (related to C 

06-06662 SBA) 

FIRST AMENDED CIVIL COMPLAINT 

FOR DAMAGES 

DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL 

 

Fabrice N. Vincent, State Bar No. 160780

Kent L. Klaudt, State Bar No. 183903 

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339 

Telephone: (415) 956-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008 

FVINCENT@LCHB.COM 

Attorneys for Plaintiff ALLEN FARON 

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CIVIL COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES 

I. INTRODUCTION

1. Shocking errors by physicians in the Emergency and Urgent Care 

Departments of St. Joseph Hospital and Eureka Community Health Center caused 19-year-old 

ALLEN FARON terrible and irreparable injuries. Defendants’ failure to adequately care for 

ALLEN FARON caused an easily repairable hernia to progress to extraordinary and catastrophic 

permanent loss of most of his digestive tract. 

2. As a result of defendants’ misconduct, ALLEN FARON almost died, and 

was hospitalized at the University of California San Francisco Pediatric and Pediatric ICU for 

over 120 days. He will never eat or defecate normally again and has required multiple 

rehospitalizations. ALLEN FARON faces a future of prolonged illness, permanent disability, and 

premature death. 

3. ALLEN FARON’s catastrophic injuries are not only totally disabling, they 

are painful, gruesome, and require constant care. He had an open wound in his abdomen with 

protruding fistula and requires an abdominal discharge pouch and a colostomy bag. He is now in 

constant pain and tethered 12 hours a day to complex and awkward feeding tubes. 

4. Plaintiff ALLEN FARON’s injuries were easily preventable. Any plain 

film radiology x-ray, CT scan or MRI should have revealed the hernia, and if it were diagnosed 

earlier, it could have been easily repaired and he would have led a normal life. Defendants 

inexcusably failed to provide even basic x-rays, failed in their physical examinations of ALLEN 

FARON and failed to do complete blood work or supply other basic medical care and testing 

necessary for ALLEN FARON’s hernia detection and repair. 

5. Defendants’ conduct was reckless and malicious. ALLEN FARON 

presented desperately many times for emergency care with acute distress and never received basic 

abdominal and thoracic examination testing and treatment. He was not supplied standard 

radiological testing, or given complete blood tests, nor suspected for or diagnosed with 

obstructive condition. He did not receive the simple hernia detection and repair he so obviously 

and desperately needed. 

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II. PARTIES, VENUE AND JURISDICTION

6. Plaintiff ALLEN FARON is age 21 and is a resident of Eureka, CA. 

7. At all times herein mentioned, each of the Defendants was the agent and 

employee of each of the remaining Defendants and was at all times herein mentioned acting 

within the scope of said agency and employment. 

8. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and hereby alleges, that Defendant 

KEVIN MOLANDER, M.D., at all times relevant hereto, was a physician duly licensed to 

practice medicine in the State of California and doing business at 2700 Dolbeer Street, Eureka, 

California. 

9. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and hereby alleges, that Defendant 

JOHN KELSEY, M.D., at all times relevant hereto, was a physician duly licensed to practice 

medicine in the State of California and doing business at 3340 Glenwood Avenue, Eureka, 

California and 2700 Dolbeer Street, Eureka, California. 

10. Plaintiff is informed and believes, and hereby alleges, that Defendant 

RONALD CORDOVA, M.D., at all times relevant hereto, was a physician duly licensed to 

practice medicine in the State of California and doing business at 2700 Dolbeer Street, Eureka, 

California. 

11. Defendant UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is and was at all times herein 

mentioned a provider of medical care and services through its agents and employees Eureka 

Community Health Center and Ellen Taylor, P.A., at health care facilities in Eureka, California. 

12. Defendants ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL and ST. JOSEPH HEALTH 

SYSTEM are and were at all times herein mentioned hospitals, clinics and/or mental health care 

facilities maintained pursuant to a license existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of 

California and/or authorized to do business and/or doing business at 2700 Dolbeer Street, Eureka, 

California. ST. JOSEPH HEALTH SYSTEM also has a principle place of business in Orange 

County California. 

13. On information and belief, ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL and ST. JOSEPH 

HEALTH SYSTEM (hereinafter the “Hospital Defendants”) are alter egos of each other and/or 

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set up as separate entities solely as a fiction to avoid responsibility for non-delegable duties and 

duties affirmatively assumed by virtue of their advertised promises to provide excellence in 

medical services to the community, promises relied upon by plaintiffs herein to their detriment. 

14. Venue is proper in the United States District Court, District of Northern 

California, because the majority of ALLEN FARON’s injuries occurred in San Francisco County. 

To save his life from defendants’ malpractice and tortious misconduct, ALLEN FARON was 

flown to San Francisco County for extraordinary and lengthy medical interventions. In 2006, he 

required approximately a dozen surgeries performed in San Francisco and spent over 120 days at 

UCSF Children’s Hospital at a cost already well in excess of $3.2 million in medical, hospital and 

drug services provided in San Francisco County by San Francisco residents and entities. He was 

rehospitalized on or about July 24, 2006 at UCSF for new surgeries and rehabilitation. 

15. Venue is additionally proper in the United States District Court, District of 

Northern California, because Defendant UNITED STATES OF AMERICA removed this action 

from the Humboldt County Superior Court on or about November 5, 2007, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 

§§1441, et seq., and original jurisdiction lies in a federal forum under 28 U.S.C. §1331 (civil 

actions arising under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States), and the Federal Tort 

Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346, 2671, et seq. 

16. Plaintiff ALLEN FARON filed a Federal Tort Claim with the appropriate 

federal agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, on or about December 5, 2006, a 

true and correct copy of which (without exhibits) is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

17. On or about July 9, 2007, Plaintiff’s Federal Tort Claim was denied by the 

Department of Health and Human Services. A true and correct copy of the letter denying this 

claim is attached hereto as Exhibit B. Plaintiff ALLEN FARON has thus exhausted all of his 

available administrative remedies, thus necessitating and permitting the filing of this lawsuit. 

III. FACTS

18. In the late evening of January 18, 2006, ALLEN FARON presented yet 

again to St Joseph emergency department. Allen had been at home and was still feeling ill. He 

had just been seen in St. Joseph emergency department on January 17, 2006, and had sought 

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medical care for signs of major abdominal problems at St. Joseph Hospital numerous times 

(11/22/02, 5/24/05, 08/28/05, 8/30/05, 1/15/06, and 1/17/06), and had similarly sought treatment 

at the Eureka Community Health Center (09/02/05), for recurring abdominal pains followed by 

vomiting, a classic obstructive syndrome that requires radiological and other internal 

examination. 

19. Defendants inexcusably failed to x-ray or adequately radiologically 

evaluate or test, diagnose and repair ALLEN FARON’s hernia and obstructions until it was too 

late. The need for radiological evaluation of abdominal complaints is a basic and longstanding 

tenet of medicine, “A patient who has a clinical picture suggestive of a bowel obstruction, for 

example, is best served by obtaining plain radiographs of the abdomen ....” Sleisenger & 

Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Management, 7th 

edition, 2002; Textbook of Surgery, The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice, Edited by 

David C. Sabiston, Jr., M.D., James Duke Professor and Chairman Department of Surgery, Duke 

University Medical Center, 1991, “plain radiographs of the abdomen have their greatest role in 

the evaluation of the question of mechanical obstruction of the gastrointestinal tract. Supine and 

erect radiographs of the abdomen should allow the distinction between gastric outlet obstructions, 

proximal, mid and distal small bowel obstructions, and colonic obstructive processes.” CT 

scanning and MRI scanning were also readily available to Defendants and inexcusably not 

utilized or not properly utilized on ALLEN FARON to his detriment. 

20. By January 19, 2006 ALLEN FARON’s undiagnosed hernia had 

catastrophically and irreversibly progressed and he collapsed in St. Joseph emergency department 

and had to be resuscitated with intubation and chemical resuscitation. Testing revealed sudden 

catastrophic hernia progression with massive amounts of bowel within his right hemithorax with 

marked deformity of the mediastinal structures. He underwent emergently surgery and was 

transferred to the University of California San Francisco Pediatric Unit where he underwent 

numerous surgeries and was hospitalized for more than 120 days at a cost well in excess of $3.2 

million. 

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21. Allen’s case is not only catastrophic but egregious, because the 

devastating, life-threatening course of events should never have happened. Allen knew and told 

his doctors that something was very terribly wrong with him and his repeated and desperate 

efforts to seek basic medical care from defendants were useless because they ignored his 

complaints and disregarded his suffering and failed to perform standard, easily available 

necessary medical testing. 

22. Defendants ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL, ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL 

SYSTEM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (whose agents and employees are the Eureka 

Community Health Center and Ellen Taylor, P.A.), KEVIN MOLANDER, M.D., JOHN 

KELSEY, M.D., RONALD CORDOVA, M.D., and each of them, undertook the care and 

treatment of Plaintiff ALLEN FARON, and rendered professional services in the diagnosis, care 

and treatment of the Plaintiff. 

23. At all times herein mentioned, the Defendants, and each of them, failed to 

exercise the proper degree of knowledge and skill and so negligently, carelessly, recklessly, 

wantonly, and unlawfully treated, provided care, monitoring, examination, and other professional 

services that, among other things, they failed to adequately and properly diagnose and treat 

Plaintiff. Notices pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure Section 364 were served on 

April 10, 2006. 

24. Plaintiff alleges on information and belief that at all times herein 

mentioned, the Defendants, and each of them, failed to order and/or perform basic x-rays of, and 

blood work for, Plaintiff ALLEN FARON, and/or otherwise failed to meet the standard of care 

when he sought help with major abdominal problems, and, as a result, failed to timely diagnose 

and treat his hernia. Defendants’ failure to perform basic diagnostic testing on Plaintiff ALLEN 

FARON, was plain and obvious error, as he presented repeatedly over the course of 

approximately seven months with a longstanding history of abdominal pain followed by 

vomiting, and notified Defendants that he had a history of “problems with diaphragm,” all of 

which were obvious signs of obstructive syndrome always requiring x-ray review and full blood 

tests. 

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25. Timely basic diagnostic testing of Mr. Faron would have revealed the 

hernia when it could and would have been easily repaired without any permanent injury. 

Defendants’ failure to perform basic testing caused Mr. Faron to suffer catastrophic, permanent 

and horrific complications and injuries. 

26. Mr. Faron’s future medical care needs are extraordinary and he will likely 

need transplantation of his small intestines and liver; unfortunately these extremely costly 

procedures hold major risks and living with transplanted organs also requires life-long treatment 

with dangerous steroids and an ever-present risk of organ rejection. Intestinal transplantation 

costs approximately $813,600 and a liver transplantation starts at approximately $392,800, if 

organs are available. 

27. Defendants’ negligence caused Plaintiff ALLEN FARON to suffer 

irreversible and catastrophic injuries to, and loss of, most of his digestive system starting on or 

about January 19, 2006 because of complications from the undiagnosed hernia. 

28. Plaintiff alleges on information and belief that Plaintiff ALLEN FARON is 

now in constant pain and was hospitalized and bedridden at UCSF in San Francisco for over 

120 days from January 19, 2006 to May 2006, with multiple subsequent hospitalizations, 

including re-hospitalizations with multiple future hospitalizations and surgeries expected. 

29. Plaintiff ALLEN FARON will likely never be able to eat or defecate or live 

naturally again and requires at least 12 hours daily of total parenteral nutrition by IV through a 

port-a-cath and will require lifelong medical care. Total parenteral nutrition (TPN), is the 

complex practice of feeding a person without using the gut, i.e. intravenously. TPN is delivered 

with a medical infusion pump. A sterile bag of nutrient solution, between 500 mL and 4 L is 

provided. The pump infuses a small amount (0.1 to 10 mL/hr) continuously in order to keep the 

vein open. The nutrient solution consists of water, glucose, salts, amino acids, vitamins and 

sometimes emulsified fats. 

30. Long term TPN patients suffer from many side effects including systemic 

hypertension, lack of trace nutrients, electrolyte imbalances, increased blood sugar, and bacterial 

infection, usually due to the increased infection risk from having an indwelling central venous 

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catheter. Liver failure often may also occur, especially in patients like ALLEN FARON who 

require massive levels of TPN to survive. 

31. Plaintiff ALLEN FARON suffered for many months from an open 

abdominal wound and required at times many chest tubes just to breathe because his chest cavity 

was leaking for so long. He has required multiple surgeries and will likely require many more. 

Because of the wrongdoing of Defendants, and each of them, Plaintiff ALLEN FARON faces a 

future of prolonged hospitalization, prolonged, constant suffering and premature death. His 

massive injuries have caused him extraordinary emotional suffering and pain and major severe 

depression and he was been placed on suicide watch while a patient at UCSF’s ICU. 

32. As a direct and proximate result of the negligence, carelessness, 

recklessness, wantonness and unlawfulness of defendants, and each of them, and the resulting 

incident, as aforesaid, Plaintiff ALLEN FARON sustained severe and serious injury to his person, 

all to Plaintiff’s damage in a sum within the jurisdiction of this Court and to be shown according 

to proof. 

33. By reason of the foregoing, Plaintiff ALLEN FARON suffers terribly, has 

been required to employ the services of hospitals, physicians, surgeons, nurses and other 

professional services, and has been compelled to incur expenses for air ambulance, ambulance 

service, medicines, x-rays, TPN, multiple surgeries and other medical supplies and services. 

Plaintiff is informed and believes, and thereon alleges, that further services of said nature will be 

required by Plaintiff in an amount to be shown according to proof. 

34. At the time of the injury, as aforesaid, Plaintiff ALLEN FARON was 

regularly and gainfully employed. By reason of the foregoing Plaintiff has been unable to engage 

in his employment for a time subsequent to said accident, and Plaintiff is informed and believes, 

and upon such information and belief, alleges that he will be unable to work in his said 

employment for the rest of this life, all to Plaintiff’s damage in an amount to be shown according 

to proof, and estimated at this time to have a present value of between $973,870 and $1,318,480. 

35. True and correct representative color photographs of ALLEN FARON are 

attached hereto as Exhibit C. 

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FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION

(Medical Negligence- Against All Defendants)

36. Plaintiff incorporated by reference herein all prior paragraphs as though 

fully set forth herein. 

37. Defendants were medical providers who failed to provide basic medical 

services and testing that any reasonable medical provider would have supplied and failed to 

diagnose and repair a readily diagnosable, easily repairable congenital hernia. 

38. Defendants, and each of them, were and held themselves out to be, 

knowledgeable in the provision of medical, including emergency and acute care. 

39. At all times relevant, Defendants carelessly and negligently examined, 

informed, treated, diagnosed, prognosed, prescribed medication to and otherwise treated and 

rendered medical and other services and care to Plaintiff. 

40. At all times herein mentioned, the relationship between Defendants and 

Plaintiffs herein was fiduciary in nature, which imposed a duty upon Defendants to fully explore, 

diagnose, disclose and repair any and all material problems, dangers, hazards and health 

problems, inherently associated with ALLEN FARON’s health complaints, problems and 

symptoms. 

41. As a result of the professional negligence and medical malpractice of 

Defendants, Plaintiff has suffered severe injuries and damages as alleged herein. 

42. Plaintiff complied with the provisions of Code of Civil Procedure § 364 on 

April 10, 2006 by serving on Defendants notice of Plaintiff’s intention to commence this action. 

Their letter stated: 

Dear St. Joseph Hospital, Dr. Molander, Dr. Kelsey, Dr. Cordova 

and Eureka Community Health Center: 

Please be advised that we represent ALLEN FARON and his 

mother Nancy Faron and that they intend to pursue claims against 

you (and/or your agents, employers or employees) for medical 

negligence and malpractice as a result of your failure to meet the 

standard of care in treating ALLEN FARON. 

You failed to order and/or perform basic x-rays of and blood work 

for Mr. Faron (and/or otherwise failed to meet the standard of care 

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when he sought your help with major abdominal problems), and, as 

a result, failed to timely diagnose and treat his hernia. This 

negligence caused Mr. Faron to suffer irreversible and catastrophic 

injuries to and loss of most of his digestive system on January 19, 

2006 because of complications from the undiagnosed progressive 

hernia. 

Brave 19-year-old ALLEN FARON is now in constant pain and 

remains and has been hospitalized and bedridden at UCSF San 

Francisco since January 19, 2006. He will likely never be able to 

eat or defecate or live naturally again and requires total parenteral 

nutrition and lifelong medical care. He continues to have an open 

abdominal wound that may or may not ever heal and requires chest 

tubes just to breathe because his chest cavity is leaking. He has 

required multiple surgeries and will require many more. Because of 

your wrongdoing, Mr. Faron faces a future of prolonged 

hospitalization, prolonged, constant suffering and premature death. 

His massive injuries have caused him extraordinary emotional 

suffering and pain and major severe depression and he has been 

placed on suicide watch. 

Our expert physician consultants, including Professor of Medicine 

John Cello, advise the Farons and me that your failure to perform 

basic diagnostic testing on Mr. Faron is plain and obvious error, 

shocking and wrong. Mr. Faron presented repeatedly over the 

course of approximately seven months with a longstanding history 

of abdominal pain followed by vomiting; these were obvious signs 

of obstructive syndrome always requiring x-ray review and CBCs 

and full blood workup. 

Timely basic diagnostic testing of Mr. Faron would have revealed 

the hernia when it could have been easily repaired without any 

permanent injury. Your failure to perform basic testing caused Mr. 

Faron to suffer catastrophic, permanent and horrific complications 

and injuries. Mr. Faron’s only hope for a semi-normal life is 

transplantation of his small intestines and liver; unfortunately this 

extremely costly procedure has its own major risks. 

Mr. Faron hopes and requests that you have or will report this 

matter to the California Medical Board as well as the Joint 

Commission on Hospital Accreditation, and that you undergo 

remedial medical training before treating other patients. 

Please let us know if we may provide you with any information or 

records to facilitate your and/or your counsel or insurors’ 

consideration of Mr. Faron’s claims. 

Very truly yours, 

Fabrice Vincent 

cc: Allen and Nancy Faron, UCSF Hospital, Room L-629 

Pediatrics, 6th Floor, Main Campus, 505 Parnassus Ave., San 

Francisco, CA 94143-2204 

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 Frank Grove, Octagon Risk Services, 2101 Webster Street, 

Suite 645, Oakland, CA 94612 

 Felecia Harte, LCHB Legal Nurse Consultant 

43. The conduct of Defendants was willful and intentional and done with 

fraud, oppression and malice against Plaintiff and with a conscious disregard to the rights of 

Plaintiff. Pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure § 425.13, Plaintiff asserts punitive 

damage claims only against the St. Joseph defendants (who are believed to deny that they are 

medical providers) and will later assert punitive and/or exemplary damages against the individual 

physicians named in this Complaint. Based upon the allegations set forth in this complaint and 

Plaintiffs hereby give notice of their intention to amend said claims in the future to allege punitive 

damages under C.C.P. § 415.13(a). 

SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION

(Negligent Hiring and Supervision- Against All Defendants)

44. Plaintiffs incorporate here all prior paragraphs of the complaint. 

45. Defendants were each and all negligent in the hiring and/or supervision of 

physicians, nurses, agents, and others who failed to timely diagnose and repair ALLEN FARON’s 

hernia. 

46. As a proximate and direct cause of Defendants’ negligence in hiring and 

supervision, plaintiffs have suffered catastrophic, continuing and terrible injuries and damages, as 

plead above. 

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff prays for judgment against Defendants, and each of them, 

as follows: 

1. For past, present and future general damages, according to proof; 

2. For past and future medical and incidental expenses, according to proof; 

3. For past and future loss of earnings and/or earning capacity, according to 

proof; economic damages, including but not limited to sums incurred and to be incurred for 

services of hospitals, physicians, surgeons, nurses and other medical supplies and services; 

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4. For the right to later move to amend to assert punitive and exemplary 

damages in an amount to be-determined at trial; 

5. For prejudgment interest on all damages as is allowed by the laws of the 

State of California; 

6. For past and future mental and emotional distress, according to proof; 

7. For past and future loss of consortium, according to proof; 

8. For past and future costs of suit incurred herein; 

9. For interest provided by law including, but not limited to, California Civil 

Code Sec. 3291; and 

10. Costs and fees of suit (including public benefit attorneys fees awardable 

under C.C.P. Section 1021.5) and for such other and further relief as the court deems proper. 

11. For estoppel against the Hospital Defendants preventing them for 

benefiting from MICRA limits due to their unfair business practices in denying that they are 

health care providers. 

12. Punitive damages against St. Joseph Hospital and Health System. 

13. For such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper. 

Dated: January ______, 2008 LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

By: 

Fabrice N. Vincent 

Fabrice N. Vincent (State Bar No. 160780) 

Kent L. Klaudt (State Bar No. 183903) 

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339 

Telephone: (415) 956-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008 

Attorneys for Plaintiff ALLEN FARON 

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JURY DEMAND

Plaintiff demands a trial by jury on all issues which may be tried by a jury. 

Dated: January ___, 2008 LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

By: 

Fabrice N. Vincent 

Fabrice N. Vincent (State Bar No. 160780) 

Kent L. Klaudt (State Bar No. 183903) 

LIEFF, CABRASER, HEIMANN & BERNSTEIN, LLP 

Embarcadero Center West 

275 Battery Street, 30th Floor 

San Francisco, CA 94111-3339 

Telephone: (415) 956-1000 

Facsimile: (415) 956-1008 

Attorneys for Plaintiff ALLEN FARON 

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