Sentences with phrase «lawsuits over bills»

This really helps you avoid lawsuits over bills and hospital visits.

Catholic Health has agreed to a large settlement with the U.S. Justice Department in a whistleblower lawsuit over billing practices in such government health programs as Medicare and Medicaid, according to two sources with knowledge of the case.

Not exact matches

To that end, groups of current and former NFL cheerleaders have used multiple lawsuits to sue both the league and the teams that feature cheerleaders (the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns and the New York Giants do not employ cheerleaders; the Buffalo Bills also do not employ cheerleaders but have been sued over the Buffalo Jills, which the Bills discontinued in 2014).

Seattle lawyer Bill Marler, who represents children and families in lawsuits over food - borne illness, said the database «will create an economic incentive for companies to have better safety records.

The top lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly have reached an agreement with Gov. Andrew Cuomo on a bill Sunday that would make it easier for a person to file a lawsuit over a missed cancer diagnosis.

The senator said he doubts that the Senate will even vote this year on Sen. Brad Hoylman's bill, which would allow victims to file lawsuits over child sexual abuse incidents that occurred before 2006, in many cases decades ago, against abusers and their employers.

All of this is separate from issues about what is moral, and what is right, but New York, California, and other places with stringent gun laws are frequently and repeatedly sued over them, California is currently a hotbed of lawsuits over the raft of gun control bills Jerry Brown signed recently.

Democratic Senate candidate Leslie Danks Burke on Monday released a TV ad knocking her Republican opponent Tom O'Mara over a bill that would make it easier for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits.

The bill was approved before the end of the recent legislative session and was backed by Sen. John DeFrancisco, a Republican, and Democratic Assemblywoman Pat Fahy and was written following a lawsuit that was filed over the issue.

The U.S. Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit to block AT&T's $ 85 billion bid to take over Time Warner — arguing that a merger would result in higher bills for consumers and squelch innovations in technology.

The lawsuit filed by NY1 over New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's use of «agents of the city» to justify not disclose certain email records is now before a judge.

ALBANY — Citizens Union has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman over a provision in a June reform bill, the group announced Tuesday.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — State Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli said today that he thinks Mayor Stephanie Miner should drop a lawsuit against COR Development over the Inner Harbor project because it could cost the community jobs.

The bill for a lawsuit over raises for county officials continues to grow.

NY1 News and the New York Post filed a lawsuit against NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio today over the administration's refusal to release messages exchanged between the mayor, his top aides, and an outside consultant, Jonathan Rosen

The collective bargaining bill stalled in the Wisconsin Legislature can modify state statutes, said Madison attorney Lester A. Pines, but lawsuits could pop up over whether abolition of bargaining rights supersedes the ability of union employers to withhold dues under existing contracts.

The bill would allow Westchester to join several other counties that have already filed lawsuits or are investigating pharmaceutical companies for over prescribing prescription painkillers, including Dutchess, Rockland, Ulster, Nassau, Suffolk, Broome, Erie, Sullivan and Orange.

After a federal magistrate judge dismissed a similar lawsuit in 1999, finding the state was immune from the legal action, the western New York tribe in 2007 sent a $ 2 million bill for back tolls during a dispute with the state over cigarette taxes.

Many of the original plaintiffs have backed out of the lawsuit because of legal bills that have added up over the history of the case.

Governor Signs Off on Bill Ensuring Free Public Education Gov. Jerry Brown has approved legislation that settles a lawsuit over public schools illegally charging students for educational activities and materials such as textbooks, exams, and field trips.

The Florida PTA is dropping out of the Florida Education Association's lawsuit over the 15 - year - old program, in which corporations save on their tax bills by funding the scholarships.

Shortly after filing a pre-emptive lawsuit over the matter last year, Quicken Loans CEO Bill Emerson said the DOJ has «hijacked» the FHA program, adding its pursuits are having a «chilling effect on the market.»

The healthcare industry is the single biggest customer of the debt collection industry, constituting 42 % of the collection market, versus only 29 % for the banking & finance sector.34 One stunning statistic from a 2003 Federal Reserve study is that over half of accounts reported by debt collectors and nearly one - fifth of lawsuits that show up as negative items on credit reports are for medical debts.35 Moreover, often medical debts are sent to debt collectors for reasons completely out of the consumer's control, such as disputes between insurance companies and providers, or even the result of the provider's failure to properly bill the insurer.

I have a lawsuit against me for a hospital bill that has been turned over to collection agency.

Often times attornies will recommend that you take a settlement to avoid a costly trial, often that force you to accept a series of payments over a number of years, which might be if you don't have any immediate need to make use of that money, but if you have major health bills or any other immediate need for the money that you've received from a lawsuit, a payment over many years simply won't do much for you.

Though bad debts fall, lawsuits over collection practices rise — Consumers are paying credit card bills on time more often and filing fewer bankruptcies, so why are lawsuits over debt collection soaring?

A recent thread in the right - wing blogosphere has it that law firm Perkins Coie has billed Obama's lobbying organization more than a million dollars while trying to suppress lawsuits over Obama's eligibility to be president, an issue that has long been considered settled by the courts but continues to simmer on the Internet.

Other representative matters he has handled include representation of an independent physicians association in a lawsuit brought by a laboratory over billing charges, a health care clinic in an action for interference with contract, a member of a limited liability company in an action alleging breach of fiduciary duty, and several clients in commercial, breach of contract actions.

Lawsuit over bad behavior: OK, so the wait staff's remark on a couple's restaurant bill describing their two year old daughter as a «little f ****» probably isn't a paradigm of customer service.

Donald Trump announced last week that he is dropping his $ 5 million lawsuit against comedian Bill Maher over Maher's statement on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that he would donate $ 5 million to a charity of Trump's choice if Trump could prove that he was not «the spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.»

The same dude also tried to intervene in a lawsuit (United States v. North Carolina, No. 1:16 CV425, 2016 WL 7335627 (M.D.N.C. Dec. 16, 2016)-RSB--RRB- over the North Carolina bathroom bill, saying that a man trying to marry a machine or marry multiple people belonged in the same category as a man trying to marry a man or a man who identifies as a woman.

This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened with Faraday Future — the company has settled two other lawsuits over late bills last year including one with the supplier that made its seats and faced a very well - publicized $ 21 million spat with the construction company contracted to build Faraday Future's factory in Nevada.

Like LeEco, Faraday has also had trouble paying its bills, which have led to lawsuits and executive departures over the past year.