June 8, 2011 – Today, two former patients of physician who performs breast examinations filed a lawsuit against the physician and his clinic, alleging that he engaged in inappropriate, unprofessional and offensive conduct during breast examinations. The patients also asserted claims against their HMO, alleging that the HMO referred them to the doctor despite knowing that he had a pattern, practice and/or history of engaging in such conduct. Among other things, they allege that the HMO had received complaints from other female patients and that HMO knew, or should have known, that the doctor had been sanctioned by the Medical Board of the State of California for engaging in unprofessional conduct during a breast examination.