Audish: Confronting a new legal reality

The collateral-source rule, the Secondary Payor Act and Medicare in Audish v. Macias

Greyson Goody

From Issue: 2024 December

Supreme Court puts plaintiffs through the Hamilton Meats grinder

Many questions remain unanswered for personal-injury plaintiffs

Gary Simms
Michael Danko

From Issue: 2011 November

Medical liens: Necessary evil or litigation advantage?

The economy, the Supreme Court and HMOs combine to accelerate the use of medical liens in personal injury cases

Stephen Ellison

From Issue: 2013 April

Evolution of the collateral source rule and its effect on life-care planning

Understand this 1988 ruling and be skeptical of the data and methodologies relied upon by defense life-care planners that would ignore it

Eustace de Saint Phalle
Sarah Madan

From Issue: 2022 August

Appellate Reports

Medical-expense damages and the collateral-source rule/Medicare; also, handwritten vs. electronic signatures on arbitration agreements, and scam ads on Facebook, binding arbitration agreements and wrongful-death heirs

Jeffrey I. Ehrlich

From Issue: 2024 July

The Collateral Source Rule under the Affordable Care Act

The need to prevent a double discount of plaintiff’s future medical-care cost damages

Bruce Fagel

From Issue: 2014 January

Preventing defendant from muddying the waters at trial

Using Howell to the plaintiff’s benefit at trial

Alexandra A. Hamilton

From Issue: 2015 September

Future medical costs post-Corenbaum

Past-paid medical bills and payments by private health insurance are not evidence of the future cost of care

Eustace de Saint Phalle
Alison M. Karp

From Issue: 2014 September

Don’t be chicken, keep fighting

Howell and Corenbaum – what they say (and don’t say) about the reasonable value for medical services

Craig Peters

From Issue: 2014 February