Success Stories
MASSIVE Reduces Medicaid Lien by over $400,000
MASSIVE was determined to significantly reduce a Connecticut Medicaid lien for a brain injury as a result of medical malpractice. Connecticut’s Medicaid Statute is clear that it is not required to reduce for fees and costs. The lienholder saw the settlement amount as sufficient to pay back the lien in full. Our attorneys saw…
Read MoreTexas Plaintiff’s Medicare Lien Reduced by Over $90,000
MASSIVE’s successful dispute in a nursing home negligence case led to a significant reduction in the Medicare lien. The injuries for this case were for pressure ulcers only, however, the plaintiff had significant hospitalizations with other injuries that Medicare added to the lien. MASSIVE’s expert attorneys reviewed the liens and disputed to Medicare that the…
Read MoreNew York Plaintiff’s Private Lien Reduced by Over $54,000
MASSIVE significantly reduced a United Healthcare lien for a medical malpractice case involving a failed cancer diagnosis. Many of the charges that the lienholder was attempting to collect were from after the settlement date. The law firm had difficulty communicating with the lienholder and hired MASSIVE to get the job done. Our skilled expert lien resolution attorneys carefully laid out the facts to the lienholder who agreed with MASSIVE’s argument and removed…
Read MoreMASSIVE Reduces Pennsylvania Aetna Lien to Zero
With meticulous attention to detail and expert knowledge of state law, MASSIVE completely eliminated a lien from a motor vehicle accident lawsuit. Despite the lien holder’s insistence, scrutiny of the Plan language indicated this was not a self-funded ERISA plan based on its incomplete language and self-funded affidavit from the wrong year. The adjuster disagreed with our position and continued to pursue the so-called ERISA…
Read MoreMASSIVE Reduces Self-Funded ERISA Lien by over $240,000
MASSIVE was determined to significantly reduce a medical malpractice case involving a birth trauma. Doctors failed to diagnose fetal distress in a premature birth, which led the baby to have severe brain damage. The lienholder was a self-funded ERISA plan and the law firm had trouble getting anywhere with an uncooperative representative of the lienholder. …
Read MoreCalifornia Plaintiff’s Lien Reduced by Over $80,000
MASSIVE ensured a California plaintiff was able to take home his full net settlement despite a lien that was more than double the settlement amount. After suffering from a failed knee replacement and having to receive additional treatment due to the implant’s failure, the plaintiff was hit with a lien of almost $85,000, a bill…
Read MoreMASSIVE Reduces Malpractice Victim’s ERISA Lien to Zero
MASSIVE stepped in to resolve a lien after a cancer misdiagnosis lead to confusion regarding the preexisting need for treatment. A Michigan plaintiff was told she had one type of cancer, received treatment for it, then was informed that she had been misdiagnosed with another type of cancer. The plaintiff began the correct form of…
Read MoreMASSIVE Does it Again! ERISA Lien Fully Eliminated After Careful Review of Plan Language
MASSIVE’s expert attorneys completely eliminated an ERISA lien arising from a motor vehicle accident lawsuit in less than five months. This challenging subrogation claim was governed by case law where the employer can demand 100% of a plaintiff’s settlement. And while the lien holder had offered to reduce the $284,000 lien by 25% due to…
Read MoreMASSIVE’s Mass Tort Team Lowers $92,000 VA Lien
Recently, we were hired by a law firm to negotiate a Veterans Administration lien where the plaintiff required revision surgery on his hip implant. The VA covered his healthcare costs of $34,000 for a different facility, however, they reported a lien of $120,000 – a $92,000 difference. The VA asserted that if the plaintiff used one of its facilities, its lien would have been closer to $120,000 for those same services. It also…
Read MoreLien Resolution Success
In depth review of plan language did not support the healthcare lien. MASSIVE reduced a $1.3 million Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield lien to $10,000 after a California plaintiff was severely burned in a house fire. In addition to burns, the plaintiff suffered permanent disfigurement, chronic asthma and respiratory complications along with emotional injuries. While…
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