Melisa ZwillingApr 6, 2018Fifth Circuit District Court Allows MAO Action Seeking Reimbursement from Tort Settlement Fund to GoOn March 16, 2018, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied defendant’s Motion to dismiss in Humana,...
Melisa ZwillingFeb 27, 2018UPDATE: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds District Court Decision Giving Medicare Advantage As you will recall, in August 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, following the lead of the Third...
Melisa ZwillingMar 31, 2017U.S. District Court Again Relies on Eleventh Circuit Decisions And Allows Medicare Advantage OrganizIn the recent case, Mspa v. Century Sur. Co., No. 16-20752, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37040 (U.S. Dist. S.D. Fla., March 15, 2017), the...
Melisa ZwillingMar 14, 2017District Court Grants Summary Judgment after Insurance Company Refuses to Pay Settlement FundsIn Stone v. State Auto Mut. Ins. Co., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21737, Billy Ray Stone (“Stone”) filed an action against State Automobile...
Melisa ZwillingAug 30, 2016ALERT: Eleventh Circuit Holds That Medicare Advantage Organization Entitled to Double Damages Under A number of federal district courts have followed the ruling of the Third Circuit in In re Avandia Sales Practices, and Products...
Melisa ZwillingMay 18, 2016Fourth Circuit Federal District Court: Medicare Advantage Organization Has Private Cause of Action UIn Humana Ins. Co. v. Paris Blank LLP, No. 3:16CV79-HEH, 2016 U.S. Dist. Ct. LEXIS 61814 (E.D. Va., May 10, 2016), Humana Insurance...
Melisa ZwillingDec 10, 2015Determining Rights of Medicare Advantage Plans: State Lacks JurisdictionIn the most recent decision in a series of cases involving a 2009 incident at a condominium, a Florida Court of Appeal finds that the...