A California resident has filed a lawsuit against a major hospital and a physician, alleging severe medical malpractice and personal injuries. Hudine Orozco submitted the complaint on September 12, 2024, in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, targeting Sutter Bay Hospitals doing business as Sutter Health CPMC Mission Bernal Hospital and Dr. Leah A. Schraga.
The case revolves around alleged negligence that occurred from January 24, 2024, to the present. According to the complaint, Orozco sought medical treatment for abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and generalized weakness at Sutter Health CPMC Mission Bernal Hospital. The plaintiff claims that both the hospital and Dr. Schraga failed to provide competent medical care during this period. "Defendants breached their duty to assure the competence of their staff physicians," reads one part of the complaint.
Orozco's allegations include several specific instances of negligence. For example, he asserts that due to improper care and supervision by the defendants, he suffered a fall on January 24, 2024. This incident led to multiple injuries including facial blunt impact, laceration, intracranial hemorrhage, and eventually required a craniotomy. "As a direct and proximate result of defendants’ negligence," Orozco states in his filing, "plaintiff suffered injury to his body and shock and injury to his nervous system."
The plaintiff is seeking various forms of relief from the court. These include compensation for loss of earnings according to proof presented during the trial and general damages for physical and mental suffering caused by the alleged malpractice. Additionally, Orozco seeks reimbursement for all medical and incidental expenses incurred due to these injuries.
Representing Hudine Orozco is attorney Benjamin Fogel from Benjamin Fogel Inc., while no information about defense attorneys was provided in the document. The case has been assigned Case No.: CGC-24-618066 in front of an unspecified judge at this time.