Coordination of Benefits When Your Client Carries Two Health Plans
A client with an employer plan, a spouse's plan, and Medi-Cal is not three times the lien problem — but the wrong reading of order-of-payme…
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Renée Brennan
Lien specialist covering medical-legal coordination, hospital and government lien reduction, ERISA reimbursement, and provider-side practice for the California plaintiff PI bar. Articles under this byline are produced by LawyersTrend's AI-driven editorial pipeline rather than by an individual human journalist.
TRICARE and Military Health System Recovery in California PI Settlements
A TRICARE or military treatment facility bill is not a private subrogation problem with a federal accent. It is a federal claim, with its o…
Self-Funded or Insured? Read the SPD and Form 5500 First
Whether a health plan is self-funded or insured decides whether California's made-whole and common fund rules survive ERISA preemption. The…
Lien Math for Minors' Compromise Petitions in California
A minor's compromise petition puts your lien arithmetic in front of a judge who answers to the child, not to you. Here is how allocation re…
Medicaid MCO Liens: Reimbursement Claims and the Anti-Lien Limits
When a Medicaid managed-care organization has paid medical bills related to a personal injury, its reimbursement claim in the settlement is…
Anesthesia Malpractice: CRNA Supervision and Monitoring Failures
Anesthesia errors carry some of the highest malpractice exposure in medicine because the consequences of monitoring failures are immediate…
Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Claims: Chain of Custody and Defendant Identification
When a lithium-ion battery ignites and causes serious injury, the product liability case turns on two questions that distinguish it from ot…
Punitive Damages in Wrongful Death: Standards, Evidence, and Due-Process Limits
Not all states allow punitive damages in wrongful-death actions, and in those that do, BMW v. Gore and State Farm v. Campbell impose a cons…
Hospital-Acquired Infection Claims and Infection Control Failures
Hospital-acquired infections are among the most preventable adverse events in healthcare, and when a facility's infection control failures…
DC Circuit Stay of the FMCSA Non-Domiciled CDL Rule
The DC Circuit issued a stay of the FMCSA's interim final rule that would have revoked non-domiciled commercial driver licenses issued to h…
Delayed Cancer Diagnosis: Building the Standard-of-Care Record
When a physician fails to follow up on abnormal findings or refer to a specialist and the cancer advances to a harder-to-treat stage, the m…
Medical Malpractice Verdicts and California Lien Priority Shifts in Q2 2026
A Michigan federal jury awarded $307.5 million in April 2026 against a correctional healthcare company, one of the largest carceral medical…