Great news! The California Court of Appeals has reversed a prior ruling (pdf) by the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and has sustained Andrew Arce’s right to a class action lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente. The case is scheduled for a jury trial on March 22, 2010 absent any delays.
Yes, you read that right: a JURY TRIAL, thanks to a prior ruling (pdf) by the lower court denying Kaiser’s Motion to Compel Arbitration.
This decision of the Court of Appeals is precedent setting and has been certified for publication. It is a big win against Kaiser. Although we are not yet sure of the impact this case will have on the future rights of other Kaiser victims to have their day in court, it sure can’t hurt!
The Arces’ attorney, Scott Glovsky, is looking for more parents with letters from Kaiser denying treatment for their children’s autism. The more denial letters Mr. Glovsky can collect to present in court, the more likely he will be to prove that Kaiser is refusing to provide necessary services to an entire class of individuals with autism.
The letters can be scanned and emailed, faxed, or mailed the old fashioned way to:
Law Offices of Scott C. Glovsky
225 S. Lake Avenue, Suite 1000
Pasadena, CA 91101
Phone: (626) 243-5598
Fax: (866) 243-2243
Email: sglovsky@scottglovskylaw.com
For background on the case, see our prior posts on the matter.
A complete list of documents related to the Arce v. Kaiser autism class action lawsuit can be found here.
Kaiser Thrive Exposed would like to personally thank Dr. Geoff Galbraith - Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute board member; and Vice President, Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Quality Improvement Management - for inspiring us to create this website. Did we make it into the top 5?
This is excellent news! Kaiser and a jury trial? IT IS ABOUT TIME!
My best to the Arces and any others participating in this class action.
Congratulations!
Go get em!
If at all possible perhaps you could provide a link to articles such as this for Facebook, Twitter, etc. This would allow people to spread the word that you are looking for more patients that were denied coverage.
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Edelman PR stopped by this morning, so you can expect to see some astroturfing on social networking sites. Call them out for what they are, and refer people back to this comment.
From my stats below I can tell that they most likely received the Google Alert about the post, then went looking for more information. You can also see that they downloaded the decision of the appeals court.
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