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December 21, 2020
In the Northern District of California on Friday, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers dismissed health insurance case against United Behavioral Health was dismissed with leave to amend. The judge dismissed the plaintiffs’ claims with prejudice under the Sherman Act and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and the plaintiffs’ state law claims within the scope of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). Furthermore, the judge dismissed the plaintiffs’ state law claims regarding plans that fall outside the scope of ERISA with leave to amend.
The plaintiffs, led by Pacific Recovery Solutions, are out-of-network health care providers who provided intensive outpatient program (IOP) services to patients who had health insurance policies administered by United. At dispute was whether United represented to the plaintiffs that it would pay a percentage of the Usual, Customary, and Reasonable Rates (UCR) for the IOP serv
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December 17, 2020 On Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York, Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, and Allstate Property & Casualty Insurance Company filed a complaint against 21 entities, alleging the defendants were operating a scheme to defraud Allstate through the illegal corporate practice of medicine.
The plaintiffs alleged that nonphysicians Peter Khaim, Aleksandr Gulkarov, and Roman Israilov (the manager defendants) teamed up with physicians Azu Ajudua and Rolando Jose Mendez Chumaceiro (the physician defendants) to operate several professional corporations, Hillcrest Medical Care PC and Smart Choice Medical PC (the PC defendants). In New York, the complaint says, it is illegal to represent a physician as the owner of a PC when the PC is actually owned by “laypersons” unauthorized to practice medicine; the plaintiffs purported the defendants have done just that.
According to a press release from the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office, 12 people were arrested Wednesday in connection with a drug trafficking organization.
The release says the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division, the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office (ARDEO), the Federal Bureau of Investigation Safe Streets Task Force and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation served the 12 arrest warrants in multiple locations.
The 12 suspects were previously charged with drug violations in Lumpkin County in the past year, and all are being charged with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), according to the release.
The release says all 12 were determined to be affiliated and connected with a drug trafficking organization.
Ravi Zacharias Denies Accusations of Illicit Online Sexual Relationship, Credential Misrepresentation
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Ravi Zacharias Denies Accusations of Illicit Online Sexual Relationship, Credential Misrepresentation
Ravi Zacharias Denies Accusations of Illicit Online Sexual Relationship, Credential Misrepresentation
Apologist Ravi Zacharias speaks at Wilberforce Weekend 2017 hosted by the Colson Center at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland on May 19, 2017. | (Photo: The Christian Post / Samuel Smith)
Author and apologist Ravi Zacharias is denying allegations that he had an inappropriate online sexual relationship with a woman who is not his wife and that he misrepresented his academic credentials.