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In The Media
Health Insurance Fraud
Mike Casey, Insurance Pitch Misses the Mark: One Company Tops the List of Complaints Alleging Insurance Misrepresentation, Kansas City Star, Dec. 10, 2006, available at KansasCity.com.
PBS NOW with David Brancaccio
- David Brancaccio, host of the PBS television show NOW, interviewed Tony Stuart in early May 2006 regarding the Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act, proposed legislation in the Senate that would have made it much easier for a disreputable company to intentionally sell you a fraudulent health insurance policy -- and get away with it. Watch the show. Read a transcript of the broadcast. Additional information about the show and issues facing health insurance consumers today is available on the NOW Web site. Facing strong opposition from the AARP, the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Society, state insurance commissioners and attorneys general, and numerous consumer groups, the bill failed to survive a Senate vote for cloture on May 11, 2006.
Health Insurance Fraud Perpetrated by HealthMarkets (formerly the publicly traded company UICI)
- Nannette Miranda, Widow Stuck With Half-Million In Health Care Bills: Assembly Looks At More Regulation, ABC Channel 7 (Los Angeles), Mar. 7, 2006, available at http://abclocal.go.com.
- Debora Vrana, Associations' Policies Under Scrutiny; Millions Buy Health Insurance Through Trade and Other Groups. But Alliances and Claims of Misrepresentations Raise Concerns, Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2005, at C.1, available at http://www.insurancenewsnet.com.
- Chad Terhune, States Probe Health-Policy Sales Promoted Through Associations, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 25, 2003, and Chad Terhune, Nonprofit Groups That Tout Insurance Have Hidden Links, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 21, 2002.
- America's Health Care: Is There a Crisis?, CNN Larry King Live Transcript, broadcast aired July 13, 2007, available at http://transcripts.cnn.com.
- Ellen Shapiro et al., Coverage Denied, People Magazine, July 23, 2007, at 64.
Health Insurance Regulation
- Debora Vrana, Stronger Rules Sought on Association Health Plans, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 17, 2005, available at www.consumerwatchdog.org.
Read about current Stuart Law Firm cases involving fraud in the marketing of health insurance
Invasion of Privacy
- "Reality-based television suffered a setback because of a case Los Angeles sole practitioner Antony Stuart took to the California Supreme Court. His client, Ruth Shulman, was videotaped for the now-canceled syndicated TV program On Scene: Emergency Response as she was being rescued from a car accident. The court ruled that Shulman could proceed with her lawsuit against Group W under a theory of invasion of privacy because the company broadcast footage from her private conversations with the medical team at the scene and inside the helicopter. Shulman v. Group W Productions, (1998) 18 C4th 200, mod 1998 WL 436054. The case halts the trend of ever-expanding First Amendment rights of the media. 'The significance of Shulman is that it upholds the right of privacy in a public place,' says Stuart, who worked on the case with cocounsel Michael L. Goldberg of Virginia. 'It's an important principle in today's world, where technology has made it so easy to eavesdrop or photograph private moments.'"
-- California Lawyer, December 1998
- Also see Philip Carrizosa, Unwilling TV Subject Can Sue Over Privacy, Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 2, 1998, at 1.
Negligent Health Care Provision
- Gerald Faris, El Segundo, Paralyzed Man Settle Suit for $3.5 Million, Los Angeles Times, May 12, 1990
- Local Man Settles Out-of-Court, $3.4 Million Injury Suit, Inglewood News, May 17, 1990
- El Segundo Settles with Quadriplegic, Daily Breeze, May 12, 1990
Read about Orejel v. City of El Segundo involving negligence in the provision of health care. |
