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Gale Pearson to Provide PFAS Update at American Association for Justice Annual Convention

Nachawati Law Group’s Gale Pearson is a featured speaker at the American Association for Justice’s annual convention July 14 – 18 in Philadelphia. Gale will be providing an update and overview of the PFAS “Forever Chemicals” multidistrict litigation (MDL) underway in South Carolina federal court. Gale is vice chair of the AAJ’s environmental litigation division. In 2004, she was the...

JUUL Profits While Kids Pay the Price

By the time top executives of the largest U.S. tobacco companies were hauled in before Congress in 1994, people had been smoking mass-produced cigarettes for nearly 130 years. And though these men, under oath, claimed with straight faces that nicotine wasn’t addictive, we’ve long known better. In 2019, just 16 years after e-cigarettes came onto...

What Makes a Hospital Lien Fraudulent?

In Texas, hospitals can file a lien against patients who haven’t paid their bills. They do this to recover compensation for the unpaid bills, but not all liens are legal. Sometimes hospitals illegally file a claim or overcharge, which causes financial problems for many Texan families. In 1933, the Texas legislature passed a law to...

How Do I Know If I Am Being Defrauded by My Hospital?

No one thinks it will happen to them, but it is possible that if you have sought care from a hospital, you might be defrauded during the billing process. While you should expect to be billed for the care that you receive, there have been countless cases where a hospital adds fraudulent charges or otherwise...