- Pete Burns | October 21, 2009 9:14 AM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Medical Malpractice
The American Hospital Association is advancing a bizarre version of malpractice “reform”. It advocates substituting a local panel of experts appointed by state authorities for juries....
- Pete Burns | October 07, 2009 11:44 AM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
Now that President Obama has focused public attention on the deplorable state of health insurance in America everyone purports to agree that we must change the system. In truth, insurance companies...
- Gaines Drago | September 23, 2009 10:44 AM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Automobile Accidents
No one likes to think about their own mortality, especially while feeling vibrant and alive. The It could never happen to me attitude, dominates our thoughts, and while it is true that most of the...
- Pete Burns | September 13, 2009 12:41 PM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Medical Malpractice
Tying “Tort Reform” to health insurance reform could benefit both the doctors and the patients. The typical victim of a medical error wants fair compensation not a lawsuit. Most doctors...
- Pete Burns | July 15, 2009 10:32 AM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Medical Malpractice
We have approximately 50 million Americans without health insurance. Health care cost following an accident or illness is the most common cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Cleary this is a...
- Pete Mackey | January 17, 2009 6:52 PM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
When you sue an insurance company for failing to pay your medical bills, chances are that your lawsuit will be governed by the Employees Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. That Act was...
- Pete Mackey | January 16, 2009 12:43 PM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
UnitedHealth's $350,000,000 settlement is not enough money, says a lawyer for some of the plaintiffs in that case:
“We believe the amount agreed to is inadequate and does not reflect as...
- Pete Mackey | January 15, 2009 6:54 PM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
UnitedHealth Group entered into a $350,000,000 settlement of three class actions on behalf of the American Medical Association, health plan members, healthcare providers and state medical societies....
- Pete Mackey | January 15, 2009 8:17 AM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
The UnitedHealth settlement with the state of New York has been hailed as a boon for healthcare plan subscribers who want to use doctors aho are not part of their network. Perhaps it is not all that...
- Pete Mackey | January 13, 2009 3:38 PM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
UnitedHealth Group has agreed to settle a case filed by the New York Attorney General's office. That lawsuit, filed in the spring of 2008, accused the health care giant of defrauding its members by...