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31, 2007 $903,000 awarded September 1, 2006 Hard Time For Kaiser Patients To Get Day In Court After reform, Kaiser still in spotlight May 28, 2004Ex-worker sues Kaiser over X-ray standards May 4, 2004 Kaiser sued in instrument scare March 17, 2004 Kaiser Arbitration May Be Unenforceable, Says Unfair Business Competition Case Finalized Today 12/28/2002 $1 million arbitration Kaiser loses ruling in death of newborn March 11 2002 The American Arbitration Assn. will no longer allow its arbitrators to handle health care cases unless both sides voluntarily agree to the out-of-court process October 5 2001 Informed Consent as written by a Kaiser Permanente physician 05/17/2001 Allegations in medical community fly -- including bribery, conspiracy. 03/17/2001 Area physicians sue Kaiser Class-action case stems from HMO's decision to leave Kansas City area March 1, 2000 $1 million arbitration Kaiser and Arbitration in California Arbitration Agreements in Health Care: Myths and Reality Elizabeth Rolph; Erik Moller; John E. Rolph Duke University School of Law Are HMOs liable for acts of independent contractor physicians by Stuart Gerson in Physician Executive, Sept-Oct-1989 |
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31, 2007 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070831-9999-7m31lewis.htmlSAN DIEGO – The late San Diego Councilman Charles Lewis was never told by his longtime Kaiser physician Willie Thigpen that he had a serious liver disease and that drinking alcohol would hasten his death, an arbitration judge has ruled. mirrored for historical purposes at: http://horror.kaiserpapers.info/lewis.html Also found at Kaiser Permanente THRIVE Exposed! - http://www.kaiserthrive.org After reform, Kaiser still in spotlight Other insurers move toward the company's arbitration model even as critics say its changes haven't gone far enough. By Daniel Costello, Special to The Times Originally Posted at: http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-kaiser30jun30,1,6053578.story Area physicians sue Kaiser Class-action case stems from HMO's decision to leave Kansas City area http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/kandyst.html cross referenced with: http://drphillips.kaiserpapers.info/kansaswaxman.html and http://businesspractices.kaiserpapers.info/kpmedicalserviceagreement.html and http://businesspractices.kaiserpapers.info/articlek.html and http://ekaiserinsurance.kaiserpapers.info/ and http://businesspractices.kaiserpapers.info/50.html and http://businesspractices.kaiserpapers.info/unauthorized-outline.html and http://businesspractices.kaiserpapers.info/scarlinakp.html and http://news.kaiserpapers.info/kickedoutnews.html Ex-worker
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over X-ray standards
Kaiser
sued in instrument scare Hard Time For Kaiser Patients To Get Day In Court http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_244205451.html September 1, 2006 - CBS5 San Francisco Reporter Anna Werner(CBS 5) Getting out of bed is hard for John Pellini. He can barely walk. "The whole body, my shoulder my hands, everything aches," Pellini said. He even needs help breathing. For John's family it's a 24/7 job. "I feel guilty because I have always been the type of person to do things by myself," Pellini said. John's family said he could walk fine just over a year ago, when he checked into the emergency room at Kaiser in Hayward, complaining of a pain in his leg. A few days later, it became even worse. mirrored for historical purposes at: https://kaiserpapers.com/downey/pellini.html Arbitration provider breaks with HMOs, saying it will no longer handle such cases unless both sides agree to the out-of-court process. ....The American Arbitration Assn. will no longer allow its arbitrators to handle health care cases unless both sides voluntarily agree to the out-of-court process, said Senior Vice President Robert E. Meade. The group's move, officials and lawmakers say, will put pressure on California doctors, hospitals and health plans to stop forcing patients into arbitration. In many states, laws prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses, which are signed as a condition of joining a health plan or seeking care from a medical provider. http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/2b.html Kaiser Arbitration May Be Unenforceable, Says Unfair Business Competition Case Finalized March 17, 2004 "Kaiser broke California law by forcing patients into secret arbitration proceedings without fully and properly disclosing that they had given up their rights. Today's filing closes the door on the HMO's illegal actions. The unfair business competition law was the only tool I had to hold Kaiser accountable for its deception. With today's resolution of the case, Kaiser should take back the donation it made to the anti- patient initiative and stop its efforts to restrict patients' rights," http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/arbitrationnot.html Kaiser and Arbitration in California Early in my practice, I found no problem with Kaiser arbitrations. The cases I had early were relatively small, i.e. for less than $300,000. As my practice has grown, however, and I began to bring larger cases against Kaiser, I began to notice heavy pressure to settle these cases from the judges who would eventually serve as the "neutral" arbitrator. Recently, I had a large "bad baby" case in Kaiser arbitration: Guzman Groves v. Kaiser. In that case it became clear that Kaiser had two different obstetrical services: one a midwife service, and one a doctor service. If you were assigned to the midwife service, you never saw a doctor until and unless the midwife became alarmed, and thought she needed a doctor to help. Read more at: http://www.rescuehealthcareday.com/arbitration.htm Kaiser loses ruling in death of newborn ARBITRATION: An attorney says the doctor used standard procedures to treat the birth defect. 12/28/2002 By DOUGLAS E. BEEMAN THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE A Murrieta couple has won a $1 million arbitration case against Kaiser Permanente stemming from the death of their newborn daughter nearly three years ago. An arbitrator ruled that the doctor who performed the surgery to repair a birth defect used poor judgment when complications arose after the operation. Under California's law limiting general damages in medical liability cases, the award was reduced to $250,000. The couple, Rachelle and Leon Phillips, say the award is small compensation for the loss of their child. More important, Rachelle Phillips said, is that Kaiser has been held responsible for its error that cost Renea Phillips her life. http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_NEWS_nkaiser28.58021.html mirrored and preserved at: http://californianews.kaiserpapers.info/newborn.html Lawsuits get more complex Filed: 05/17/2001 By MICHELLE TERWILLEGER Californian staff writer e-mail: mterwilleger@bakersfield.com Allegations in medical community fly -- including bribery, conspiracy. A pair of lawsuits in the medical community that started out as disputes over money have developed into complex litigation involving allegations of bribery and possible plots to put people out of business. ......."They were concerned that Kaiser and BFMC were the fastest growing managed care entities in town. They did not have stable relationships with those two entities," said Arthur Chenen, attorney for BFMC. http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/terwilleger.html Article saved
from the now defunct web address at: http://www.emedicine.com/ent/topic181.htm Informed Consent as written by a Kaiser Permanente physician and published in eMedicine Journal, October 5 2001, Volume 2, Number 10 © Copyright 2001, eMedicine.com, Inc. Author: Matthew L Howard, MD, JD, Head and Neck Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Santa Rosa, California (NOTE: Dr. Howard has since retired from the Permanente) http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/informedconsent.html See Related: How
informed is signed consent?
http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/pdfs/1988informedconsent.pdfArbitration Agreements in Health Care: Myths and Reality Elizabeth Rolph; Erik Moller; John E. Rolph Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 60, No. 1, Medical Malpractice: External Influences and Controls: [Part 1]. (Winter, 1997), pp. 153-184. Duke University School of Law Are HMOs liable for acts of independent contractor physicians by Stuart Gerson in Physician Executive, Sept-Oct-1989 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0843/is_n5_v15/ai_8134817 mirrored for historical purposes at: http://legalstuff.kaiserpapers.info/stuartgerson.html |
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