Law Practice
Jan. 8, 2009
Some See Hope in County Employee's Escape From Kaiser Arbitration
An apparent loophole in the binding arbitration agreement was discovered in the case of a Los Angeles County employee who sued Kaiser for denying payments for autism treatments for his 3-year-old son. Thousands of other employees could take advantage of it, attorneys say.
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - What if the strict arbitration clauses that California health plans typically make enrollees sign, locking both frivolous and substantive lawsuits behind closed doors, vanished like invisible ink? Or like a Web page disappearing from a computer screen? That could be the case for thousands of Los Angeles County employees who enrolled online with Kaiser Permanente but may not have signed bindin...
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