Healthcare Litigation

HIV-Positive Individuals Seek to Certify a Class Action in Discrimination Case Against CVS

November 4, 2024  ·  Ben Powell

Internal Documents Show CVS Adopted an HIV Prescription Drug Mail-Order Program to Increase Revenue Despite Health Risks Los Angeles, CA – CVS was aware of the...

HIV-Positive Consumer Joins Lawsuit Against Pharmaceutical Giant Gilead Over Price Gouging

September 26, 2022  ·  Ben Powell

Los Angeles, CA — An HIV-Positive consumer has joined a federal lawsuit against pharmaceutical manufacturer Gilead Sciences in a complaint alleging unfair and anti-competitive behavior...

California Court Supports Coverage For Autism Therapy

April 25, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

(Reuters) – A California appeals court has ruled that state regulators and health insurers cannot deny coverage for an intensive autism treatment on the grounds...

California Court of Appeals Ends State Regulator’s Discrimination Against Autistic Children

April 24, 2014  ·  Jerry Flanagan

Santa Monica, CA – Parents of autistic children scored a major victory in a California Court of Appeal decision issued late yesterday, which now bars...

Calif. Appeals Court Again Says Plans Must Cover Autism Care

April 23, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

Law360, Los Angeles (April 23, 2014, 9:42 PM ET) — A California appeals court on Wednesday again held that the Department of Managed Health Care...

Court Grants Rehearing in Autism Case

October 12, 2013  ·  Jerry Flanagan

This week the California Court of Appeal granted Consumer Watchdog’s petition for rehearing in its seminal lawsuit against the Department of Managed Health Care over...

Autism Ruling Change Requested

September 27, 2013  ·  Jerry Flanagan

This week Consumer Watchdog filed a brief urging the California Court of Appeal to reconsider part of a recent ruling ending autism discrimination that could...

Ruling’s Effect on Autism Coverage

September 17, 2013  ·  Mark Reback

The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles last week ruled that the Department of Managed Health Care cannot use licensure as a basis...

KNBC TV-4 Los Angeles – Autism Health Insurance Victory

September 13, 2013  ·  Consumer Watchdog

The California Court of Appeals has ruled that all insurance plans will now have to cover perhaps the most effective treatment for autism, whether the...

KCAL TV-9 Los Angeles – CA Appeals Court Rules Public Insurance Must Cover Autism Treatment

September 13, 2013  ·  Consumer Watchdog

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/calif-appeals-court-rules-public-insurance-must-cover-autism-treatment A therapy for children with autism must be covered by public insurance companies, a California appeals court has ruled. Applied Behavior Analysis — or...

Court of Appeal Rules HMO Regulator Cannot Discriminate Against Autistic Children by Erecting Hurdles to Key Treatments

September 11, 2013  ·  Jerry Flanagan

<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-20369" alt="" src="http://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/images_justice_scales.jpg" style="width: 86px; height: 110px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; float: right;" width="86" height="110" />Santa Monica, CA -- In a complex opinion issued yesterday, the California Court of Appeal ended the Department of Managed Health Care’s (DMHC) discriminatory practice of allowing HMOs to deny treatment for autistic children of state employees and low-income families enrolled in the Healthy Families program on the basis that such treatment can only be administered through state-licensed providers.<br /> <br />

Autism Discrimination Barred

September 11, 2013  ·  Jerry Flanagan

We’re very proud of the legal team’s recent victory in a lawsuit to bar discrimination against children. The California Court of Appeal’s decision ended the...