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Serious, and depressing, answer. They don't. This is why plea bargaining is rampant in America. It isn't necessarily very fair, because for many people this ends up ruining their lives. But facing the choice of POTENTIALLY going to prison for a number of years, and to jail for weeks awaiting trial, or pleading guilty to something that does not put them jail at all, they choose the latter (since a few weeks of absence…
This is a civil case obviously, so all that jail stuff won't apply to this, but just curious... If cheap litigation is 20K, and "battling out with a judge" is 100K how come the first time I'm hearing about this is in a HN comment? Seems like no one is going up to bat against this stuff until it affects them. Reminds me of that famous poem "First they came for the ..."
It's somewhat hard to square with "litigious culture" criticisms of some parts of the country. But the details matter. Filing & defending in small-claims court is pretty cheap without a lawyer (and even with one is "only" in the small thousands) and person-vs-person cases won't be too terrible compared to companies-vs-individuals...
Always post reviews anonymously using an anonymous email address over Tor or free WiFi.
It seems bad business to go after disgruntled customers punitively rather than trying to correct the situation positively. There’s always some crazy customers out there, but either way: going after them just lends them credibility and a platform.
Yelp ought to stick up for the reviewers, at least in some small capacity. I mean, if people feel like they can't be honest in Yelp reviews without getting sued, doesn't that defeat the whole purpose of Yelp? I'd hate to see it become another ZocDoc, where five stars reviews are copypasted ad infinitum.
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HIPAA allows health care providers to disclose medical records in response to a court order as long as the order specifies the scope of the records required to be disclosed and is signed by a judge.
Court order != Filing Suit
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For 400$, in my country, I paid (well not me, my job but that is not the point) for private health insurance for a WHOLE YEAR. It covers all the basic stuff, pregnancy costs, some surgery costs, etc.. Aside from that we are all covered by the state and are not billed for anything apart from some medications. Yeah, hospitals are not that great of a place and there is a lot to be improved, but at least you know that ev…
You are paying for private supplemental health insurance in a low cost region. I'm sure lawyers charge much less there than ones in New York as well.
I posted a civilized negative review and it got taken down for "not meeting guidelines." I wonder how many other negative reviews have been taken down on Yelp? I also wonder that's a paid feature that businesses can use?
I swear that I've heard about several different people paying Yelp to "remove" (or whatever term they called it) negative reviews on their site. This was a few years ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was still a thing.
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Well, if it happens to one patient, how likely is it that this is common practice? Also, she started the sentence with "I suspect", which is very different from a plain accusation.
You cant veil an accusation under a single adjective, come on.. It might happen to many others, but her accusation is baseless and she is responsible for it. Suing for libel is an appropriate right.