Anna Cheh, M.D. v. Western Medical Center

On February 16, 2011, Linda Miller Savitt and Linda B. Hurevitz received a defense verdict in Anna Cheh, M.D. v. Western Medical Center - Santa Ana. The plaintiff, a Board-certified Emergency Medicine physician claimed she had been subjected to sexual harassment by other physicians who provided on-call consults in the Emergency Department at Western Medical Center - Santa Ana and that the hospital failed to take reasonable steps to prevent the harassment. Dr. Cheh claimed that she felt forced to resign because of the hostile work environment. After an 11 day trial, the jury returned a defense verdict in 2 1/2 hours.