Following a fairness hearing on June 17, 2024, at the United States District Court in Boston, Judge Nathaniel Gorton entered a final order on June 18, 2024 approving a landmark cross-disability Settlement Agreement in Marsters v. Healey. The Marsters case is a disability rights class action lawsuit brought against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on behalf […]
Filed May 15, 2024 in the United States District Court for Maryland. The State of Maryland has failed to provide adequate oversight into nursing facilities. This lack of oversight robs plaintiffs of their rights to dignity and essential care, risks their health and even their lives, and violates state and federal laws that govern Medicare […]
Settlement invests in new housing opportunities and community-based programs for older adults and persons with physical disabilities or mental illness BOSTON, MA – Today, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services announced a settlement that has been reached in a class action lawsuit that expands opportunities for individuals in nursing facilities, including the plaintiffs […]
The settlement will provide automatic remedies to nearly a quarter million SSI recipients who were charged with overpayments by the Social Security Administration.
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in a pending case against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ordering HHS to stop enforcing an illegal Trump-era Interim Final Rule (IFR) that continues to strip vital Medicaid benefits away from hundreds […]
Update (June 18, 2024) The court approved a settlement agreement reached in April, 2024 between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and plaintiffs. As part of the settlement, the Commonwealth agreed to invest in new housing opportunities and community-based programs for older adults and persons with physical disabilities or mental illness. The lawsuit was originally filed in […]
Media Contact: Bernard Kavaler for Disability Rights Connecticut: 860-729-3021 bernard@express-strategies.com Five Plaintiffs from Three States seek to represent others affected throughout the U.S. and ask for nationwide preliminary injunction to stop ongoing harm August 26, 2022—Today, low-income disabled and older adult plaintiffs in Connecticut, Delaware, and Nebraska filed an amended complaint and a formal request […]
(Filed August 4, 2022) In November, 2020, the Trump Administration issued an interim final rule, without considering the thousands of comments submitted in opposition, that caused hundreds of thousands of older adults, people with disabilities, and others to lose access to critical Medicaid benefits. The illegal rule required states to trim their Medicaid rolls as […]
UPDATE (January 25, 2022): A federal appeals court ruled that this national class of plaintiffs can appeal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) when their hospital stay classifications are changed from “inpatient” to “observation status.” Read the Press Release. Martha Leyanna of Delaware, described in the court’s decision, spent more than three days […]
