The Artvoice reported today that Blue Shield California twice refused to pay $2,700 emergency room claims by Rosalinda Miran-Ramirez, concluding that it was not a “reasonable” decision for her to go to the emergency room that morning when she awoke to a shirt saturated from blood with what turned out to be a breast tumor. Only after KPIX-TV reported the story did the insurance company pay the claim. Further, it reported that the National Women’s Law Center found that the laws of eight states permit insurance companies to deny health coverage to a battered spouse (as a “pre-existing condition”) since batterers tend to be recidivists.

John Feroleto – Guest Lecturer in the U.S. and Canada
John Feroleto was asked to serve as faculty for the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) on the topic of, “Competing With and Beating the Big Firms” at the Ontario Bar Association in Toronto, Canada on September 24, 2013. Today he was a guest lecturer at the University at