Blue Cross Settles Lawsuit Alleging Discrimination As an update to an earlier post about an action recently filed against Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross patients with HIV/AIDS may “opt-out” of a program that would have required them to obtain their medications by mail order under a settlement announced today by Whatley Kallas LLC and Consumer … Read more
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New Pharmacy Program Threatens Health and Privacy In a move that threatens the health and privacy of patients, Blue Cross of California has illegally targeted HIV/AIDS patients, and other seriously ill consumers, with a new program that will bar them from local pharmacies, according to the allegations in a new state-wide class action lawsuit. You … Read more
Whatley Kallas has recently announced a $120 million class action settlement of certain claims regarding out of network payments against Aetna. For a summary of the settlement and a link to the settlement agreement, please review the attached information release: Whatley Kallas Announces Settlement With Aetna As preliminary approval of this settlement is pending, there … Read more
Alan Mansfield was recently named to the Board of Governors for the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, one of the largest associations in California of plaintiffs and defense counsel and judges. In addition, Mr. Mansfield learned this week he had received an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell, the highest ranking available for attorneys in the … Read more
On November 28, 2012, Judge James Selna of the United States District Court for the Central District of California certified a class of consumers located nationwide who since 2008 signed up for debt negotiation and settlement prorater services with a company called Pathway Financial Management, located in Garden Grove, California. Notice to the class is … Read more
On September 27, 2012, Judge Pregerson of the Central District of California certified a nationwide class of purchasers of POM juice drinks. CLGCA and Alan Mansfield is one of the counsel for plaintiffs in this action. Click below to review an article about this decision. Class_Certified_Against_Juice_MFR
People may find of interest the attached article about the appeal in Rivera v. Holder, the First Amendment case brought by an unindicted member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club. Legal battle over Mongols motorcycle club’s logo creates headache for feds
For a concise analysis of today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (known as PPACA or the ACA), as well as a copy of the decision, please go to the following link: Analysis of ACA Decision
On June 12, 2012, Robert Martin and Deborah Goodwin filed a class action lawsuit against BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA and BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY for improperly closing health insurance plans and policies without providing comparable coverage in open plans and policies or pooling the closed blocks with an appropriately large … Read more