Case News
Fringe Benefit Group Excessive Fee Litigation
On July 6, 2017, the firm filed Chavez v. Plan Benefit Services, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, along with co-counsel Altshuler Berzon and Bruckner Burch.
Press Coverage of Medi-Cal Civil Rights Filing
NATIONAL/STATEWIDE
Calif. Medi-Cal Offers Discriminatory Access, Suit Says
Law360
July 13, 2017
California Sued For Allegedly Substandard Medi-Cal Care
Kaiser Health News
July 13, 2017
California Sued For Allegedly Substandard Medi-Cal Care
California Healthline
July 13, 2017
Class Claims Medi-Cal Discriminates Against Latinos
Courthouse News
July 13, 2017
California DHCS, HHSA faces discrimination suit over Medi-Cal
State of Reform
July 13, 2017
Latino Medi-Cal Patients Sue California, Alleging Discrimination
CBS Sacramento
July 13, 2017
Usuarios latinos de Medi-Cal en California demandan al estado por presunta discriminación y violación de derechos
Univision
July 13, 2017
Column: Separate, Unequal And Unacceptable
HuffPost
July 14, 2017
California sued for ‘violating Latino rights by failing to provide sufficient healthcare’
(London) Daily Mail
July 13, 2017
LOS ANGELES
Audio: Lawsuit Claims Low Medi-Cal Reimbursement Rates Are Harmful To Many Californians’ Health
KVCR (NPR affiliate – San Bernardino)
July 13, 2017
Audio: Lawsuit filed in California on behalf of Latinos (clip begins at 3:46 mark)
KCRW (NPR affiliate – Los Angeles)
July 13, 2017
Video: Activistas presentan demanda contra California por no proveer salud adecuadamente a millones de hispanos
KMEX (Univision affiliate – Los Angeles)
July 12, 2017
Medi-Cal patients sue state, claiming widespread discrimination
Los Angeles Times (story also posted in San Diego Union-Tribune)
July 12, 2017
Lawsuit claims discrimination against millions of Medi-Cal patients, especially Latinos
Los Angeles Daily News
July 12, 2017
Acusan a Medi-Cal por ser discriminatorio y ofrecer “atención médica de segunda clase”
La Opinion
July 12, 2017
California violates civil rights of Latinos on Medi-Cal, suit says
KPCC (NPR affiliate – Los Angeles)
July 12, 2017
BAY AREA
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World Journal
July 13, 2017
Suit alleges unequal health care for Latinos
SFBay.com
July 13, 2017
Latino Patients Sue State Over “Separate and Unequal” Health Care
KQED (NPR affiliate – San Francisco)
July 13, 2017
Video: Demandan al Departamento de Salud de California
KSTS (Telemundo affiliate – San Francisco)
July 12, 2017
Audio: Healthcare advocates file lawsuit against State of California (clip begins at 42:18 mark)
KPFA (Pacifica affiliate – San Francisco)
July 12, 2017
Civil rights suit alleges discrimination in Medi-Cal
San Francisco Chronicle
July 12, 2017
Lawsuit: Medi-Cal problems amount to ‘separate and unequal’ health care system
Mercury News (story also posted in East Bay Times)
July 12, 2017
Latino Patients Sue State Over ‘Separate and Unequal’ Health Care
KQED (NPR affiliate – San Francisco)
July 12, 2017
Lawsuit Claims Medi-Cal Discriminates Against Low-Income Californians
KCBS (740 AM – San Francisco)
July 12, 2017
Civil Rights Complaint Filed Challenging Medi-Cal’s Violations of Latinos’ Rights to Access to Healthcare
On behalf of multiple individual Medi-Cal beneficiaries, SEIU-UHW, St. John’s Well Child & Family Clinic and NDLON, Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow attorneys are proud to have joined MALDEF, Bill Lann Lee of CREEC, Ana de Alba of Lang Richert & Patch, & Noah Phillips in filing a complaint Wednesday in California Superior Court for the County of Alameda alleging that Medi-Cal violates the civil rights of Latino enrollees by effectively denying them access to Medi-Cal’s full benefits. The complaint documents how Medi-Cal’s low reimbursement rates for doctors, various administrative burdens for doctors and patients in the program, and the State’s failure to adequately monitor access to Medi-Cal result in violations of the civil rights of Latinos who rely on Medi-Cal for healthcare.
The attorneys seek to represent a class of 13.5 million Medi-Cal participants who have suffered as a result of the State’s disinvestment from the program.
The groups have set up a hotline in Spanish and English for Medi-Cal patients who have experienced the same difficulty finding healthcare: (855) 228-1463. A copy of the complaint is available here. For additional information, please contact Catha Worthman or Darin Ranahan.
Class Certification Granted in Rozo v. Principal Life Ins. Co.
On May 12, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa certified a class of tens of thousands of retirement plan participants who invested in the Principal Fixed Income Option (PFIO) between 2008 and the present.
Court Denies Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment in Atrium ESOP Case
On February 28, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York denied the Motion for Summary Judgment filed by Defendants John Sipala and Saddle Creek LLC in Kindle v. Dejana, Case No. 14-cv-6784 (SJF)(ARL).
Court Grants Final Approval of Lindell v. Synthes USA, et al. Settlement
On January 9, 2017, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California granted final approval of a $5 million, non-reversionary settlement in Lindell v. Synthes USA, et al., a class action alleging that Defendants failed to compensate certain California-based commission-only sales consultants for expenses and took unlawful deductions from pay for sales consultants, both commission-only and salaried, in California.
The two classes—one for expenses, one for deductions—had previously been certified in 2014, but the class definitions have been amended to include an end date of July 14, 2016. Sales consultants who worked for Synthes in California between December 13, 2007 and July 14, 2016 may be eligible for a distribution under the settlement. For more information, or to provide updated contact information, please contact Darin Ranahan or Catha Worthman. To view the court decision, as well as related settlement documents, please visit our settlements page.
Wawa ESOP Case News – Order Denying Wawa’s Motion for Reconsideration
On January 11, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Defendants’ Motion for Reconsideration or, in the Alternative, Interlocutory Appeal, in Pfeifer v. Wawa, Inc., No. 16-497-PD. Plaintiffs Greg Pfeifer and Andy Dorley allege that Wawa Defendants violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by liquidating the Wawa stock held in the ESOP accounts of former Wawa employees in September 2015.
PG&E Employees Sue Over Wrongful Denial of Pension Credits at Diablo Canyon Power Plant
PG&E’s Systematic Misclassification Scheme in the 1980s and 1990s Wrongly Cut Out Employees It Misclassified as “Independent Contractors”
Court Grants Final Approval of Class Action Settlement in Rogers, et al. v. Kindred Healthcare, Inc., et al.
On October 7, 2016, the Alameda County Superior Court granted final approval of a $2.465 million settlement in Rogers, et al. v. Kindred Healthcare, Inc., et al., a class action alleging that Defendants failed to pay Personal Care Attendants the required minimum and straight time wages and overtime premiums, did not provide them with required meal and rest breaks when they worked in licensed healthcare facilities, and failed to issue legally compliant paystubs.
