California Medical Fraud Lawyers Serving All of California from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, from Orange County to San Jose, Representing Victims of Medical and Drug Fraud from San Diego to Sacramento.
Our California medical fraud lawyers are among the most recognized medical fraud attorneys in the United States. Our California drug and medical fraud lawsuits have been chronicled in the legitimate press from the front page of the New York Times to the front page of the Los Angeles Times, from the Washington Post to the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. Our California medical fraud lawsuits have been discussed in the legitimate television news media nationally and internationally, including on Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News and CNN. Our California medical fraud lawsuits have also been discussed in national and California legal journals from the National Law Journal to the California Lawyer.
California medical fraud lawyer, Ray Henke, has testified before Congress, at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the United States House of Representatives, specifically about 10 medical fraud cases brought against physicians who misrepresented the efficacy of their methods of treatment and the efficacy of the drugs the physicians prescribed for the treatment of AIDS and cancer. California medical fraud attorney, Henke, was also honored to be nominated "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association/Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles specifically for his trial work in five consolidated medical fraud cases obtaining multimillion dollar fraud and conspiracy to defraud jury verdicts against a physician and hospital.
If you consider that you have been the victim of medical fraud, our attorneys welcome you to contact us for a free consultation. You are invited to submit the "Contact" form and one of our California medical fraud lawyers will call you to discuss your case and provide our initial case evaluation. Our attorneys will consider representing those who have been victimized by medical fraud throughout the state of California, from San Diego to Sacramento, from Orange County and San Bernardino to Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Fresno, San Jose and Santa Clara County, San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Attorney Henke and his law firm are "AV" rated by Martindale and Hubbell, the highest lawyer legal ability rating ("A") and highest attorney ethical standards rating ("V") awarded by the most highly respected lawyer ranking directory in the United States. The ratings are determined based on interviews with judges before whom the lawyer has practiced and interviews with other prominent lawyers knowledgeable about the attorney's legal ability and ethical standards. The "A" in "AV" is defined as "very high to preeminent" in "legal ability," and the "V" stands for "very high" "general ethical standards. According to Martindale & Hubbell: "AV Peer Review Rating — shows that a lawyer has reached the height of professional excellence. He or she has usually practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity." Attorney Henke is recognized as one of the "Top Lawyers in America," a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, commonly referred to as "the most prestigious group of trial lawyers in the United States." He is a former Governor of the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association and Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.
Our California Medical Fraud Lawyers are Also Medical Malpractice Attorneys And Will Often Bring Numerous Causes of Action Against Health Fraud Practitioners.
In California medical fraud cases the experienced attorney may bring suit against multiple defendants on multiple theories of action. The most common causes of action the California medical fraud lawyer will consider include fraud, misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, medical malpractice or other health care provider or hospital negligence, and may include causes of action as exotic as violations of the California Protection of Human Subjects in Medical Experimentation Act. For practical reasons the California medical fraud lawyer may consider that alleging a "conspiracy" may be appropriate, by definition requiring proof only that two or more persons agreed or concurred to accomplish something illegal or wrongful. Conspiracy is useful where there are potential defendants who were involved in the medical fraud scheme but not active participants in carrying it out. If the above elements of conspiracy are proven, however, each of the co-conspirators are properly held liable for the acts of all others. Finally, where medical fraud is established an award of punitive damages may be sought in addition to the award of compensatory damages. Compensatory damages include general damages, and special economic damages, such as past and future medical expense and past and future earnings losses. Punitive damages are damages to "punish" the defendants for their fraud or malicious conduct; sometimes also referred to as "exemplary damages" to set an example of the medical quacks, snake oil salesmen and those who conspired with them so that other physicians, clinics and hospitals will think twice before doing anything similar.
To illustrate the foregoing our California medical fraud lawyers will discuss a particular case prosecuted from its inception through to its conclusion, a 4 month trial and jury verdict. The cases involved AIDS and cancer medical fraud, 10 "test" clients, nine young men treated for HIV disease and a 25 year old woman treated for Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The defendants included a quack, a snake oil salesmen, several investors in a plan to market the snake oil, and two hospitals, the administrators of which turned a blind eye to the quackery of its staff physician. The quack had a thriving AIDS practice, his clinic lobby always filled with uniquely hopeful faces of once desperate and vulnerable AIDS patients. He would explain to his new patients that AIDS is not caused by HIV, rather it is caused by disturbances in their (nonexistent) "organ frequencies" and "toxin frequencies." He would purport to measure the "frequencies" by hooking his patients' index fingers up to a black box with dials and meters. At the conclusion, he prescribed all of his AIDS patients the same thing, a nine month "protocol" of thrice weekly typhoid vaccine shots, at $80.00 per visit.
The "snake oil salesman" mixed up a concoction of plant extracts in the unsterile environs of his bath house sink, and stapled together 20 pages of plagiarized language from unrelated medical texts into a pseudo-scientific explanation why his plant extract concoction should cure AIDS, cancer and just about every other known medical ailment. Again, AIDS and cancer patients were his most readily willing subjects, invited to attend seminars at his home, provided his 20 pages of unintelligible pseudo-science, and invited to pay to be injected with his snake oil. Intra muscular injections yielded golf sized lumps of necrotic tissue, one patient having to have a substantial part of his buttocks surgically removed. Intravenous injections resulted again only in the destruction of the surrounding tissue. So the snake oil salesman and the quack "consulted" with each other and decided that it would be a "good idea" to surgically install indwelling Hickman catheters into the entrance to their patients' hearts, the left atrium, and engaged a surgeon whose car licence plate read "Guru X" to conduct the assembly line catheter implant surgeries on their dozens of patients, taking over the Medical Center of North Hollywood surgical suites. While the hospital Chief Administrator initially denied it, the nurses on the hospital Immune Suppressed Unit had been complaining for years about the quack's idiotic and dangerous quackery on the Unit, for example, ordering the nurses to hang high dose Vitamin C for intravenous administration to AIDS patients with pneumocistis carinii pneumonia, the most deadly of AIDS opportunistic diseases, and one with a universally accepted and highly effective antibiotic treatment.
In preparation for the trial, California medical fraud lawyer, Henke, assembled together the most highly qualified group of AIDS scientists and physicians in the world to testify for his clients. They included Michael Gotlieb, the astute clinician who discovered AIDS and co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research, Luc Montagnier, the head of France's National AIDS Laboratories and the discoverer of HIV, Don Francis, the head of the CDC's first AIDS Task Force who discovered that AIDS was a sexually transmitted disease, John Curnutte, the director of the largest AIDS vaccine study in the world, Roger Detels, the principle investigator on the largest study on AIDS patients and the efficacy of AIDS drugs, and a dozen others of the most qualified scientists and hospital administrators.
As the result of the defendants' having misled their lymphoma patient to forego the standard cancer therapies for the treatment of her early diagnosed and what might have been her treatable disease, she passed away at age 27, entirely unnecessarily. When five of our medical fraud lawyer's remaining clients were determined by their physicians to be close to death, Henke moved to consolidate their cases and to set their cases for trial preferentially. He tried their five cases for 4 months. He obtained jury verdicts on the causes of action described above, including fraud and medical malpractice, and conspiracy to defraud against the hospital, also obtaining a multimillion dollar punitive damage verdict against the hospital.
Our Medical Fraud Lawyers Offer Free Consultations. Our Medical Fraud Attorneys Will Consider Representing Victims of Medical and Drug Fraud Throughout The State of California, From San Diego to Sacramento, from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area, from Orange County to San Jose.
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$2,700,000.00 jury verdict in a medical and hospital fraud case. Mr. Henke tried the cases of five clients in one consolidated 4 month trial against multiple defendant physicians and a hospital that conspired to defraud his clients with phony AIDS cures, misrepresenting that their "drugs" and remedies were effective modalities that would cure them of AIDS. The primary physician defendant misrepresented that AIDS was not caused by HIV, rather that it was caused by disturbances in the patients "organ frequencies and "toxin frequencies" which the doctor claimed he could measure with a black box. The representation was false, as there are no such thing as organ frequencies, and obviously AIDS is indeed cause by the HIV retrovirus. The physician first claimed that he could cure the patients organ and toxin frequency disturbances, and hence, their AIDS, by thrice weekly injections of typhoid vaccine, and then, when that failed, with a FDDA unapproved "drug" concocted in another physician's unsterile bath house sink. When the shots proved painful, and resulted in necrotic lumps at the sites of the infections, the physician engaged another defendant surgeon to implant hickman catheters into the entrance of the 40 patients hearts for infusion of the drug, taking over the hospital's surgical suites for multiple days. It was established that the hospital was aware of the physicians quack practices over the years preceding the assembly line hickman catheter surgeries, including in his improper treatment of pneumocistis carinnii pneumonia, and AIDS opportunistic disease, with Vitamin C, and his use of the black box on the Immune Suppressed Unit. The hospital also destroyed the records of all 40 hickman catheter recipients which would confirmed the physician's statements that the hospital had agreed to provide discounts for the surgeries. The patients accepted the office treatments and hickman catheter surgeries, and the then consented to the infusion of the unsterile drug, Viroxan, into their hearts, in reliance upon the physician's misrepresentations that this would cure their AIDS, and upon their judgment that the hospital's discounts for the surgeries were a endorsement of the treatments.
A stellar cast of experts were called by Henke to testify in the case, including Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who discovered the HIV retrovirus, and heads up France's National AIDS Laboratories, Michael Gotlieb, the physician who first discovered AIDS and co-founded the American Foundation for AIDS research, Don Francis, the epidemiologist who headed up the Center for Disease Control's first AIDS task force, and discovered that AIDS was a sexually transmitted disease, Roger Detels, the epidemiologist who was the lead scientist in charge of the largest study on the efficacy of AIDS pharmaceuticals, and 20 others of the most highly regarded AIDS scientists, Hospital Administrators, and other experts.
The jury found that the physician was guilty of fraud and that the hospital was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the five patients brought to trial in the case.
Mr. Henke was nominated "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association for his work and trial of that case, and he testified before Congress at the invitation of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives on the subject of medical fraud.
The case was liberally followed by the legitimate news media nationally, including a front page article in the New York Times, a front page article in the Los Angeles Times, among other respected newspapers from the Washington Post to the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. Henke also appeared on national television, including Tom Brokaw's NBC Nightly News and CNN in his endeavor to alert the public to the plight of AIDS patients susceptible to medical fraud.
*The results obtained in the cases listed were dependent upon the facts of the cases, and the results will differ in other cases based on different facts
Madoff's scheme unraveled after he confided in his sons that the massive asset management arm of his firm was a massive Ponzi fraud. On December 10, 2008, Madoff's sons told authorities quoting Madoff as saying it was "one big lie." FBI agents arrested Madoff the next day and charged him with one count of securities fraud. There has been widespread criticism that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which had conducted numerous investigations into Madoff's business practices, incompetently handled the investigations.
Madoff pled guilty to 11 felony counts and admitted that his wealth management business of a Ponzi scheme, in which he defrauded thousands of investors. It is unclear whether the Ponzi scheme began in the early 90s and Madoff contended or began as early as the 1980s. It is also not clearly known as of the time of this post the full extent of the funds Madoff may have bilked from his investors. Estimates range from 18 billion to 65 billion.
In Mark of 2009 Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, which was the maximum term allowed.
