Posts tagged car

• Health Net Settlement - Up to $14 Million for Wrongful Recission of Policies

  Todd Slaughter | February 13, 2009 3:10 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It seems like just yesterday I posted about the settlement reached by healthcare insurance giant, Anthem Blue Cross, in a California case brought by 2,300 policyholders for wrongful rescission of...

• Blue Cross Fined $1 Million for Wrongful Cancellation of Sick Policyholders

  Todd Slaughter | February 11, 2009 6:07 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In what appears to be a continuing revelation of corrupt insurance claims practices, Anthem Blue Cross will announce today that the health care insurance company will pay $1 million in fines to the...

• Woman Thrown from Vintage Seatbeltless Vehicle - Killed

  Todd Slaughter | February 09, 2009 3:16 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  CRESCENT CITY - Calif. A 65-year-old Cloverdale woman was killed after being ejected from a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria that had drifted off the road, struck an embankment and overturned. The passenger...

• AP: Californians' Access to Emergency Healthcare in Jeopardy

  Paul Kiesel | January 28, 2009 7:49 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  From the Associated Press: A coalition of emergency doctors took the state to court Tuesday over low reimbursement rates for Medi-Cal patients. In a lawsuit filed against the California Department...

• California's Overstressed Emergency Healthcare System on the Verge of Collapse

  Paul Kiesel | January 27, 2009 7:16 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Raymond Boucher of Kiesel Boucher Larson filed a lawsuit today, on behalf of emergency room doctors, against the State of California. The complaint says that California's emergency healthcare...

• Transparency in Health Insurance is On the Way

  Amber Wheat | January 15, 2009 7:40 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The investigation by the New York Attorney General’s Office has revealed a serious flaw in the way “usual and customary fees” for out-of-network providers are determined. It turns...

• Cuomo Announces Historic Nationwide Health Insurance Reform, Will Create Fair Rates for Consumers Nationwide

  Paul Kiesel | January 13, 2009 9:25 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has reached an agreement with UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation's second largest health insurer, to reform the nationwide health care reimbursement system, after...

• The California Supreme Court on Balance Billing and Healthcare Providers

  Amber Wheat | January 13, 2009 12:12 PM | 0 CommentsChico, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I first heard of balance billing from my mother. I had gone to a doctors appointment, I paid my co-pay, and a couple of weeks later, I got a bill from their office. I asked my mom why I was being...

• It’s the Network: How the Medical Provider Network is Changing Care for Injured Workers

  James Cool | December 20, 2008 7:49 PM | 0 CommentsVentura, CA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Based on reforms of a few years ago, California workers who are injured on the job are turning to physician networks. Both an insurance research group and the California Workers’...

• Medical Marijuana, ID Cards, and Sacramento County

  Amber Wheat | December 18, 2008 4:19 PM | 8 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Since 1996, medicinal use of marijuana for certain medical cases has been legal in California. In 2003, the state decided that ID cards should be issued on the county level to identify patients who...