Hilton Head Hospital has been named in a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that the hospital paid kickbacks to a clinic that directed expectant, undocumented mothers living in the United States to the hospital as a way to increase Medicaid revenue. The federal qui tam lawsuit was recently unsealed, meaning that the […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
NC Policy Watch Comments on Recent Pro-Business Supreme Court Decision
NC Policy Watch recently published an article highly critical of the North Carolina Supreme Court’s August 30, 2013 decision in Bumpers v. Community Bank of Northern Virginia. In Bumpers, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed a summary judgment ruling in favor of a victim of predatory lending practices. In the […]
CFPB Report Cites Mortgage Servicing Problems
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a report on August 21, 2013 detailing widespread mortgage servicing problems at both banks and nonbanks. Read the Supervisory Highlights report. The report also found that a number of nonbanks lack effective systems for ensuring compliance with federal law. Under the Dodd-Frank Wall […]
Non-Profit Inquiry Debunks Theory That Litigation is to Blame for Soaring Medical Costs
Public Citizen, a national non-profit organization which represents consumer interests through, inter alia, lobbying, litigation, research, and public education, recently issued a comprehensive report which disproves the argument that medical malpractice litigation was the driving force behind increasing medical costs. The report is titled ‘No Correlation: Continued Decrease In Medical […]
Safety Rule of 75 Percent Protects Consumers
We recently concluded a trial where we discovered that the insurance company was manipulating the actual cash value of the vehicle to keep from “totaling” a van. In North Carolina there is a safety rule that states if a vehicle is damaged where the repairs are going to cost 75 […]
CFPB Issues Bulletin on Credit Reporting
onsumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues Bulletin Regarding Credit Reporting Disputes On September 4, 2013, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a Bulletin setting forth CFPB’s expectations regarding investigation of consumer reporting agency disputes. The Bulletin stresses that companies that supply information to consumer reporting to consumer reporting companies (“furnishers”) […]