Pasadena, CA
Employment and labor Lawyer at Pasadena, CA
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Discrimination ... +2 more
OUTCOME: Settlement: $247,000.00
Plaintiff alleged that she had experienced substantial economic harm as the result of the illegal business practices of her employer. The employer categorically denied each and every one of its former ... employee's allegations. The matter was resolved just prior to trial.
OUTCOME: Petition for Writ of Mandate granted.
An ancillary action to Bolanos v. Darbun, this appeal in the California Court of Appeal for the Second District sought to have the Court compel the Director of the California Department of Health Servi ... ces to abide by the United States Supreme Court's decision in Arkansas Dept. of Health and Human Servs. V. Ahlborn (2006) 547 U.S. 268 and Welfare & Institutions Code $14124.72(d) in calculating the amount of reimbursable expenses claimed by the Department in cases where medical care was provided to injured minors by and through the Medi-Cal program. The Court differentiated between past and future medical expenses in the calculation of the appropriate reimbursement amount in cases involving injured minors such as in this instance, utilizing a ratio between the settlement amount and the total claim asserted in order to fix the Medi-Cal lien amount. The matter was remanded to the trial court to determine the appropriate lien amount, which resulted in a substantially larger recovery amount on behalf of the minor client.
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