Lien resolution Success Story – Synergy’s reduces Medicare Final Demand by 47%, obtaining a refund of over $43,000 for the injured plaintiff
This case involved a Medicare beneficiary who was injured as a result of medical malpractice. When the plaintiff’s attorney settled the personal injury action, Medicare presented a Final Demand of approximately $91,000. The plaintiff’s attorney paid the Final Demand to …
Lien Resolution Success Story – Synergy’s aggressive lien resolution tactics result in an Air Ambulance lien waived and self-funded ERISA lien reduced by 86%
This case involved a serious slip and fall accident that happened on a cruise ship while it was at sea. The plaintiff suffered significant injures, incurring medical damages in excess of $540,000. The injured plaintiff engaged a seasoned trial attorney, …
Maryland Suspends Attorney for Failure to Repay Healthcare Reimbursement Claim
Maryland Suspends Attorney for Failure to Repay Healthcare Reimbursement Claim
Failing to deal with the subrogation/reimbursement claims of health insurance carriers has proven to be a possible career ending mistake for one Maryland personal injury attorney. In the September 2013 …
ERISA Subrogation Claim Barred by One Year Statute of Limitations
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. The United States District …
Court’s Authority Over a Minor’s Settlement is Not Preempted by ERISA
By: Synergy’s Director of Lien Resolution
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in …
McCutchen Round 2 – Why 29 U.S.C. 1024(b)(4) Matters
On March 17, 2014 the trial court in the infamous U.S. Airways v McCutchen entered an order allowing Mr. McCutchen to amend his answer to include affirmative defenses and a counter-claim. The court allowed this unusually late amendment to pleadings …
Medicaid Liens – Congressional Reversal of Ahlborn & Wos
Unfortunately, as part of the budget signed by President Obama on the 26th of December (Merry Xmas), a legislative fix for Ahlborn was made law. Now, Medicaid liens are like Medicare liens in the sense that they are super …
Medicare Gives Refunds? How Can My Client Get One?
By Director of Lien Resolution
Repaying Medicare for conditional payments is a necessary but unpleasant process which can result in a greatly reduced net recovery or no recovery at all for an injured Medicare beneficiary. The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute …
Will Obamacare End ERISA’s Subrogation Tyranny?
By Synergy’s Director of Lien Resolution Services
In the wake of the disastrous holding in U.S. Airways v. McCutchen, 569 U. S. (2013) plaintiffs and their attorneys are crying out for an end to the Draconian tyranny of self-funded …
Synergy out flanks Rawlings and reduces self-funded ERISA claim by 50%
This case involved a self-funded ERISA plan participant who was injured in a motor vehicle accident. The plaintiff was injured when the car in which he was riding was rear-ended by the tortfeasor. The plaintiff incurred significant injuries which resulted …
