Health Care And Psychiatric Fraud and Abuse

We have successfully litigated several cases against psychiatric hospitals and individual practitioners for fraud and mistreatment of their patients, including

Warfield v. UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital. California Court of Appeal No. 2d Civil B 101560 (unpublished op. June 16, 1998)
Brooks v. Paracelsus Healthcare Corp., Los Angeles Co. Superior Court No. VC 022293 (1995)

We will continue to contribute to the rising tide of such legal actions aimed at the elimination of the civil rights and human rights abuses all too common in this field.

Since the end of World War II, psychiatry has presumed expertise over explaining and resolving anti-social behavior, creating a lucrative government pipeline to fund its crusade. Politicians have become cheerleaders for pharmaceutical companies promising instant relief from emotional difficulties through the newest pill. Federal and state legislators call for still more trust (and money) in psychiatric authority, supposedly poised to deliver cathartic resolution to civilization’s ills in just a few years.

Yet, despite the many billions of tax dollars invested in psychiatric research and treatment, we have witnessed not the promised improvement of societal conditions, but an emerging Brave New World in which the prevalence of crime, drug abuse, and illiteracy are skyrocketing. For several years now, more individuals have been incarcerated in U.S. prisons than are enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities.

As its critics charge, psychiatry’s remarkable failures to deliver its promised solutions to human behavior signal that the subject is no more than an ideology of “normalcy” masquerading as serious science.

Thus, not unlike the surge in tobacco litigation in recent decades, the next decade is likely to see the rise of well-founded and effective legal challenges to the health care frauds and psychiatric abuses committed in the name of help.

If you are the victim of health care of psychiatric fraud and abuse contact us for legal assistance.