Health Care & Hospital Law
Aug. 31, 2023
LA emergency doctor wins $600K for not being promoted
“It’s significant in terms of how hard it is to win a case like this when somebody is still working there. People normally will say, ‘If it’s so bad why don’t you quit?’” said Bohm, who tried the case with Kelsey Ciarimboli of his Bohm Law Group and Brandon Ortiz of Ortiz Law Office.
A Los Angeles County jury awarded an emergency department doctor $600,000 in damages Wednesday in his lawsuit accusing Harbor-UCLA Medical Center of not promoting him, despite seniority.
Failure-to-promote cases are very challenging to win because the plaintiff’s attorney has to prove that there was a passing over of opportunity, Dr. Timothy Jang’s lead attorney, Lawrance A. Bohm, said in a telephone interview.
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