By Cory Bilton You don’t often get to pick the hospital you go to after being injured; you just go to the nearest one. This means that almost no one considers the price when choosing between hospitals. While the DC metropolitan area has many hospitals to choose from, it turns out that the cost of your care can be vastly …
In Reimbursement Bout, ERISA Plan Knocks Out Equitable Defenses
By Cory Bilton Around our office, numerous jokes are made about my fascination with the law surrounding liens, subrogation, and rights of reimbursement. So last summer, when I learned that a big ERISA reimbursement case, US Airways v. McCutchen, was granted cert by the Supreme Court, I immediately cleared my schedule for the oral arguments on November 27, 2012. In …
Defense Medical Experts’ Use of Substantially Similar Evidence in Virginia
By Cory Bilton For every injured plaintiff, there are defense experts who will testify that the plaintiff is not injured. Usually this defense expert is a medical doctor who testifies either that the plaintiff was never injured to begin with, was already injured before the incident, or that the plaintiff was injured in the incident, but should have already recovered …
Virginia Cyclists Beware – “Dooring” Bill Dinged
By Cory Bilton If you cycle in the Northern Virginia area, particularly inside the beltway, you are probably familiar with the threat of being “doored.” In many parts of Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax, you are frequently riding between moving traffic to the left and cars parked along the right side of the road. When a car door suddenly opens right …