Women’s Care Florida, LLC v. Deanna Caminiti

CourtDistrict Court, M.D. Florida
DecidedApril 1, 2026
Docket8:25-cv-03011
StatusUnknown

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Women’s Care Florida, LLC v. Deanna Caminiti, (M.D. Fla. 2026).

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TAMPA DIVISION

WOMEN’S CARE FLORIDA, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v. Case No. 8:25-cv-3011-KKM-LSG

DEANNA CAMINITI,

Defendant. ___________________________________ ORDER Women’s Care Florida, LLC, sues its former employee and physician Deanna Caminiti for breaching her employment agreement and for unjust enrichment. See Compl. (Doc. 1-1). Caminiti asserts counterclaims for sex discrimination, fraud, breach of the employment agreement, and violation of the Equal Pay Act. See Am. Countercls. (Doc. 20). Women’s Care moves to dismiss Caminiti’s counterclaims for failure to exhaust administrative remedies and failure to state a claim. See MTD (Doc. 25). Caminiti opposes. Resp. (Doc. 34). For the following reasons, I grant in part and deny in part Women’s Care’s motion. I. BACKGROUND Caminiti is a board-certified physician who has specialized in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) for roughly twenty years and maintained “a successful and lucrative medical practice in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area.” Am. Countercls. ¶ 1. In 2024, Women’s Care recruited

Caminiti to relocate her medical practice to Florida. See id. ¶ 4. In doing so, Women’s Care “represented to Dr. Caminiti that [Women’s Care] maintained a professional, fully trained, and competent administrative staff, support staff, and employees,” and likewise “maintained the offices, staff, and resources

needed for a fully functioning, professional medical office specializing in an OB/GYN practice, including patient records and monitoring, access to lab testing and timely results, and resources, practices, and procedures in the office.” Id. ¶¶ 5–7. Women’s Care told Caminiti that she “would be one of five

physicians covering the [Women’s Care] office at Lakewood Ranch.” Id. ¶ 7. Caminiti accepted Women’s Care’s employment offer and signed a “Physician Employment Agreement” in June 2024. Agreement (Doc. 20-1). Per the Agreement, Caminiti’s five-year term of employment was to “commence on

or about September 9, 2024,” and she was to receive a one-time $100,000 incentive bonus. Id. at 2, 5, 13. According to Caminiti, however, Women’s Care “was completely unprepared for [her] to commence her employment, and in fact, [Women’s Care’s] staff was completely unaware that Dr. Caminiti was

commencing employment there at all,” causing a several week delay in Caminiti’s start date and causing her to lose thousands in income. Am. Countercls. ¶ 13. Once Caminiti finally started her employment, she “discovered that [Women’s Care] had lied to her about nearly all aspects of her employment and

the office conditions, and that all of the factual representations made to her in the recruitment process were completely false.” Id. ¶ 14. For example, the Lakewood Ranch office had only two other physicians, “presenting a serious and unacceptable risk to patients of the practice.” Id. ¶ 15. Women’s Care “had

no after-hours communication services in place,” and its “calendar and scheduling systems were a dangerous and incoherent mess.” Id. ¶¶ 17–19. “Caminiti was repeatedly placed in a position where angry patients were waiting on lab results, which were unreasonably delayed and inconsistent,”

and “Caminiti discovered that [Women’s Care] maintained an unattended web- based messaging system, through which [Women’s Care] patients (including Dr. Caminiti’s patients) submitted electronic communications to physicians, with no oversight, review, or response at all.” Id. ¶¶ 20–23.

Caminiti alleges that she reported these issues to Women’s Care and “demand[ed] that [Women’s Care] remedy these practices and comply with the Agreement.” Id. ¶ 24. “[Women’s Care] dismissed all of these concerns as ‘growing pains’ for the office,” and Caminiti’s requested meetings with

management were “canceled” or “ignored.” Id. ¶¶ 24–26; see id. ¶ 26 (“Dr. Caminiti also reported these problems and breaches to [Women’s Care’s] Chief of Staff Julia Jolley, both verbally and in writing, but the communications were ignored.”).

Around the same time, Caminiti “learned that [Women’s Care] was intentionally discriminating against herself and other female OB/GYN physicians in the practice” by paying two male physicians $60,000 more in annual salaries despite “significantly less experience and qualifications than

Dr. Caminiti,” in addition to providing the male physicians extra vacation, paid time off, and private office space. Id. ¶¶ 27–28. Women’s Care “again ignored [Caminiti’s] notices and requests” to discuss the apparent discrimination, leading Caminiti to contact the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission (EEOC) on December 3, 2024. Id. ¶¶ 30–31. Just over two weeks later, on December 18, Caminiti “resigned her employment and terminated the Employment Agreement for cause.” Id. ¶ 32. In September 2025, Women’s Care sued Caminiti in state court for

breach of contract and unjust enrichment, seeking repayment of Caminiti’s incentive bonus and payment of Caminiti’s “tail” insurance coverage, as provided for in the Agreement. See generally Compl. Caminiti timely removed the action to federal court and filed an answer and four counterclaims. See

(Docs. 1, 6). Caminiti alleges sex discrimination in violation of Title VII and the Florida Civil Rights Act (FCRA) (Count I), fraud and misrepresentation (Count II), breach of contract (Count III), and violation of the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) (Count IV). See Am. Countercls. ¶¶ 39–70. Women’s Care moves to dismiss each claim.

II. LEGAL STANDARD Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)(2) requires “a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief.” This pleading standard “does not require ‘detailed factual allegations,’ but it

demands more than an unadorned, the-defendant-unlawfully-harmed-me accusation.” Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 555 (2007)). “A pleading that offers ‘labels and conclusions’ or ‘a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will

not do.’ ” Id. (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 555). “Nor does a complaint suffice if it tenders ‘naked assertion[s]’ devoid of ‘further factual enhancement.’ ” Id. (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 557). “To survive a motion to dismiss” under Rule 12(b)(6), a plaintiff must

plead sufficient facts to state a claim that is “plausible on its face.” Id. (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 570). A claim is facially plausible when a “plaintiff pleads factual content that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged.” Id. The complaint’s factual

allegations are accepted “as true” and construed “in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.” Pielage v. McConnell, 516 F.3d 1282, 1284 (11th Cir. 2008). III. ANALYSIS Women’s Care raises several arguments in support of dismissing

Caminiti’s four counterclaims. I address each in turn.1 A. Count I: Sex Discrimination In a single count,2 Caminiti alleges that Women’s Care unlawfully discriminated against her based on her sex in violation of both Title VII of the

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the FCRA. See Am. Countercls. ¶¶ 39–50. Women’s Care first argues that the claims must be dismissed because Caminiti failed to exhaust administrative remedies, as required by each statute. See MTD at 5–8.

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