Los Angeles, CA - Medicare Advantage Provider and Physician to Pay $5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

Beaver Medical Group L.P. (Beaver) and one of its physicians, Dr. Sherif Khalil, have agreed to pay a total of $5,039,180 to resolve allegations that they reported invalid diagnoses to Medicare Advantage plans and thereby caused those plans to receive inflated payments from

This is the third chapter in our appellate review of this controversy, which
involves the wrongful denial of unemployment benefits by respondents Employment
Development Department (EDD) and the California Unemployment Insurance Board
(Board). After both EDD and the Board rejected a claim for unemployment benefits filed
by Jose Robles—and the trial court denied Robles’s petitio

Defendants and appellants Catalina Restaurant Group, Inc., Carrows Restaurants,
Inc., Carrows Family Restaurants, Inc., Coco’s Bakery Restaurants, Inc. and Coco’s
Restaurants, Inc. (collectively, Catalina Defendants) appeal the partial denial of their
motion to compel arbitration. Plaintiff and respondent Yalila Lacayo (Lacayo) was an
employee of Catalina Defendants. Lacayo filed h

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis and Jeffrey A. Chine for Real Party
in Interest and Respondent.
Real party in interest and respondent Genesee Properties, Inc. (Genesee) sought
tentative map approval from respondent County of San Diego (the County) for a 24-lot
subdivision on 1416.5 acres of land in San Diego County known as the Hoskings Ranch
(the property). The prop

“Pursuant to constitutional mandate, the Legislature has
vested the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB) with
exclusive jurisdiction over claims for workers’ compensation
benefits. (Cal. Const., art. XIV, § 4, Lab. Code, § 5300.)” (La
Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, Inc. v. Industrial Indemnity Co.
(1994) 9 Cal.4th 27, 35.) Thus, in an action involving a worker
injured dur

Health and Safety Code section 1418.8 (section 1418.8) sets forth procedures to be
followed for nursing home residents who lack capacity to make their own health care
decisions. Most of the affected residents are elderly, many are poor, and all may be
described as “unbefriended” in the sense they are without family members, friends or
other legal surrogates to make health care deci