The Personal Injury Professional’s Guide to Lien Types: What You Need to Know
In the high-stakes world of personal injury litigation, one word can quietly threaten your client’s net recovery and your firm’s efficiency: liens.
From government agencies to private insurers, everyone wants a piece of your client’s recovery. But not all …
To Outsource or Not? Deciding Which Liens Require Expert Help
For personal injury firms, lien resolution is one of the most time-consuming and risk-heavy aspects of personal injury practice. Every lien has the potential to cut into your client’s net recovery and expose your firm to liability if mistakes are
Why Lien Resolution Isn’t Your Firm’s Core Competency—and Why Outsourcing Matters
Personal injury firms excel at what they were built to do: securing justice by proving liability, telling their client’s story, and getting the best possible settlement or verdict. Yet once the dust settles, another challenge arises, resolving liens.
Here’s the
Medicaid Lien Resolution Fundamentals
Medicaid liens often arise in personal injury cases where the injured party is indigent, and the program has covered the client’s medical expenses. Under federal law, Medicaid programs must recover these expenses from third-party settlements. However, the process is governed …
Gallardo v. Marstiller: Medicaid Liens-Undoing of Ahlborn
Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., CSSC, MSCC
June 9, 2022
On June 6th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court decided in a 7-2 decision to allow Florida Medicaid, pursuant to Section 409.910 of the Florida Statutes, to recover its lien …
