If you’re injured in an accident, who will pay? When a person is hurt by someone else the law says that someone else should pay to compensate the injured person, but who? There are a few different answers to that question in cases of personal injury. The most obvious place to start is that the […]
New Law Changes the Crosswalk Rules for Pedestrians in California
What the law change means for California pedestrians You probably didn’t know it, but if you live in California, there’s a good chance that you’ve been breaking the law when you walked across intersections with countdown signals. It’s easy to break this traffic law without even thinking about — especially in busy, crowded San Francisco, […]
After an Accident, You May Be Responsible for Expensive and Unnecessary Medical Testing Bills
After California passed AB-72 Health care coverage: out-of-network charge, many following healthcare reform in California breathed a sigh of relief. However, California’s fight for emergency healthcare billing reform is far from over. There’s another issue driving up the costs of hospital visits that is being cited in recent reports: for-profit emergency room staffing companies. Once […]
California Takes the Surprise Out of “Surprise Billing” for Emergency Room Patients
On September 23, 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB-72 Health care coverage: out-of-network charge with little fanfare. The law went into effect for Californians July 1, 2017. This relatively small bill tackles one of the biggest problems in emergency healthcare that many people are not aware of: surprise billing. How surprise billing […]
