A recent lawsuit in Palm Beach has headlines made. It could be that the case concerns the mega insurance company, state farm, or that it has to do with a controversial back pain procedure. Either way, it is an interesting story.

According to the Palm Beach Post, state farm insurance co. and the Palm Beach Lakes Surgery Center doctors are Jeffrey Kugler, Jane Bistline and Jonathan Cutler, as well as two others, the practice, the head to head in a legal dispute go. At the heart of the dispute is a back procedure that runs known for road accident victims in the car, as a percutaneous Discectomy. The procedure is minimally invasive and is meant to relieve pain.

The action, initiated by State farm, claimed that the doctors in collaboration with a medical manufacturer and close to inflate prices for medical procedures to law firms, were not necessary. Apparently, supposedly the schema insurance cost over US$ 13 million.

Lawyers for State farm, said that the operation Center at doctors in fraudulent billing practices. While she, not, was local law firm, Steinger, Iscoe and Greene names as defendants in the lawsuit this company in the lawsuit mentioned. Allegedly, represented the company at least 59 patients, the the controversial back procedure.

The doctors in legal dispute with the name easily took not the fees. They fought back with a defamation, States that "insurance company are claims to keep part of a system of payment claims."

An of the Surgery Center lawyers, Anthony Vitale, claimed that it was all right with doctors and injury lawyers clients on a different...

It will be interesting to see, as this legal saga plays out.

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