Represented Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri and other Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in litigation against defendants who conspired to defraud the healthcare insurers through utilization of a laboratory pass-through billing scheme. The defendants and their co-conspirators took control of a Critical Access Hospital in Unionville, MO called Putnam County Memorial Hospital, and used the hospital to bill our clients $18 million for lab tests performed by their laboratory in Colorado. By billing the tests through the hospital, they obtained substantially inflated reimbursements. Robins Kaplan secured a jury verdict for compensatory and punitive damages totaling $25.6 million.

Obtained several seven- and eight-figure confidential settlements for health insurers in a dispute with independent laboratories, billing companies, and marketers involving a nationwide pass-through scheme.

Represented a 32-year-old man with third-degree burns over 70% of his body caused by a combustible dust fire and explosion, which led to numerous settlements totaling $15.4 million.

Secured favorable resolution, including a cash payment, of a health insurer’s dispute with a national ancillary provider that engaged in a deceptive scheme of illegal remuneration to induce vulnerable patients’ acquisition of lucrative commercial health coverage. 

Obtained favorable pre-litigation settlements for a Fortune 500 manufacturer in connection with several matters concerning the False Claims Act’s anti-retaliation provision, the Minnesota Whistleblower Act, and state employment law claims.

Obtained a favorable confidential settlement for a health insurer in its dispute with a major metropolitan provider system.

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• Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans Legal Clinic