CRUZ-VÁZQUEZ v. MENNONITE GENERAL HOSPITAL, INC.

Civil No. 08-1236 (JP).

613 F.Supp.2d 202 (2009)

Hazel I. CRUZ-VÁZQUEZ, et al., Plaintiffs, v. MENNONITE GENERAL HOSPITAL, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico.

April 16, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pedro F. Soler-Muniz, Pedro F. Soler Muniz Law Office, Guaynabo, PR, Jose R. Ortiz-Velez, Ortiz Velez Law Office, San Juan, PR, for Plaintiffs.

Anselmo Irizarry-Irizarry, Matta & Matta PSC, Jose H. Vivas, Vivas & Vivas, Ponce, PR, Jose A. Miranda-Daleccio, Miranda Cardenas & Cordova, Humberto Vazquez-Sandoval, Gilda del C. Cruz-Martino, Simed, San Juan, PR, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

JAIME PIERAS, JR., Senior District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought the instant action pursuant to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act ("EMTALA"), and Articles 1802 and 1803 of the Puerto Rico Civil Code, P.R. Laws Ann. tit. 31, sections 5141-42. Plaintiffs allege that Defendants' medical malpractice and violation of EMTALA caused Plaintiff Hazel Cruz-Vázquez ("Cruz") to give birth to a premature baby girl whose incomplete...

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