HEALTHCARE PRACTICE INCLUDING PATIENT RECORDS IN COLLECTION LAWSUITS
- A very interesting series of collections lawsuits in my home state of New Jersey. A mental health practice has filed two dozen lawsuits against former patients who did not pay their bills, and included notes from the diagnosis and treatments for each individual in the publicly filed court documents. The practice claims it is doing nothing wrong, but patients are now counter-suing for disclosing what is expected to be private information.
MASSACHUSETTS AG SUING COLLECTION FIRM
- A collection law firm – Lustig, Glaser & Wilson – is being sued by the attorney general of Massachusetts for allegedly engaging in unfair and deceptive collection practices. The firm has filed more than 100,000 lawsuits and collected more than $110 million in the past four years.
WORTH NOTING: The best business lessons of 2015 … The biggest corporate scandals of 2015 … Apps to help with the work-life balance … It was a bad year for IPOs … New York City now offering non-union employees six weeks of paid parental leave … De-tangling yarn knots is an actual job … Plane tickets are going to get cheaper … Startups to watch in 2016 … Cities with the longest and shortest life spans … The economy was more sluggish than expected in the third quarter.
For those – like me – who still play Clash of Clans
A look back at 2015
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