More Medicaid Fraud
Another day another Medicaid fraud settlement. In this one, Shield Healthcare, a California medical supplier, paid $5 million to settle a whistle-blower lawsuit that alleged that Shield submitting...
View ArticleSuit Stemming from Leaked Photos of a Dead Teen Settles
More than five years after the gory photographs of a teenage girl killed in a horrific automobile accident were released on the internet, her family’s lawsuit has come to an end. The deceased girl’s...
View ArticleLost Dementia Patient’s Family Files Wrongful Death Suit
A wrongful death lawsuit has been in California against a shuttle bus company after the death of an elderly man with dementia who died after going missing. Ten days after he disappeared, a man walking...
View ArticlePersonal Injury Against the Dodgers to Continue
You will be happy to know that a personal injury lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Dodgers will be permitted to proceed even though the Dodgers are in bankruptcy. Plaintiff’s lawyer had called the...
View ArticleCalifornia Wrongful Death Cases
It amazes me the extent to which every state has very different law on survival action and wrongful death cases. I remember the first time I had a case in West Virginia back when I was defending...
View ArticleCalifornia Nursing Home Arbitration Agreements
Nursing homes have made a furious effort in recent years to end run the tort system with arbitration clauses. The large nursing home chains have been at the forefront of this movement, incorporating...
View ArticleJunior Seau’s Family Files Suit Against the NFL
As the Baltimore Ravens prepare to battle it out next week with the San Francisco 49ers, a very different type of football related battle begins. The family of Junior Seau, a former linebacker for the...
View ArticleAverage Injury Verdicts in California
This page looks at the settlement and trial value of personal injury cases in Calfornia. This page was last updated on February 21, 2019. Jury Verdict Research found that the average money damage...
View ArticleWhistleblower Lawsuits for Unnecessary Hospitalizations (Winter v. Gardens...
Earlier this year in Winter v. Gardens Regional Hospital, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals revived a False Claims Act case filed by the Director of Care Management in a California hospital that claimed...
View ArticleHow Much Are California Juries Awarding in Personal Injury Cases?
A Jury Verdict Research study found that the average personal injury verdict in California is 1,635,327. The median, which takes out huge verdicts like one in the study for over $100 million, is...
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