Kaiser Sued Over Access To Mental Health Benefits
November 2, 2013
On October 3, 2013, a lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed against the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan (“Kaiser”) in California by three plaintiffs who allege on their own behalf and on behalf of potentially thousands of other patients that Kaiser is failing to properly treat pa[...]
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Is There New Hope For California Medical Malpractice Victims?
July 31, 2013
California has one of the most unfair, draconian caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases that has not changed in nearly 40 years (the price of gasoline in California in 1975 was 58.7 cents per gallon (source) when the California Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act was enacted[...]
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$7.4 Million Los Angeles Medical Malpractice Verdict
March 26, 2013
On March 22, 2013, a Los Angeles Superior Court medical malpractice jury returned a verdict after less than two days of deliberations in the amount of $7.4 million in favor of a 26-year-old woman who suffered severe brain injuries after treatment at Palmdale Regional Medical Center. The medical m[...]
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Dog X-Ray Is Downfall Of California Pill Mill Doctor
July 15, 2012
On July 12, 2012, a California doctor was arrested for allegedly running a pill mill (a medical clinic where prescription medications are readily and easily prescribed, available, and/or dispensed with little or no proper legitimate medical need). The doctor had been under investigation for about t[...]
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California Nursing Home Medical Malpractice Turns Criminal
March 19, 2012
A 77-year-old Alzheimer’s patient, who had been married to her 81-year-old husband for 60 years, was admitted into a California nursing home for care so that she could recover from pneumonia. At the time of her admission to the nursing home, it was known that the woman was prone to chronic[...]
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