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| | Arizona Applicants' Law Firm Files RICO Action Against York
By Lonce LaMon - August 7, 2013
An applicants’ attorney firm in Arizona, the law firm of Doyle Raizner, has filed a bad faith RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) action against York Risk Services Group. It was filed on July 26, 2013, in federal court for the District of Arizona.
York Risk Services Group, after purchasing Avizent Risk in December of 2011, inherited the self-insured, workers’ compensation claims servicing account of the City of Phoenix. Now this aggressive applicants’ law firm has filed this bad faith law suit against York on behalf of eight City of Phoenix firefighters.
The law suit is alleging that York is responsible for participating in a long term, ongoing scheme to delay and deny these firefighters benefits when the adjusters allegedly knew that they had no legitimate basis under the law and facts to do so.
Doyle Raizner has launched an aggressive marketing campaign to attract injured worker and personally injured candidates as clients. Doyle Raizner distributed a Press Release yesterday, August 6th, publicizing this RICO lawsuit against York, which contains bombastic and grandiloquent accusations. In combination with its self-promotion, at the bottom of the Press Release is the last statement of: If you have been injured on the job and your claim has been wrongfully delayed, denied, or disputed, please contact an attorney at Doyle Raizner.
One of the law partners, Michael Patrick Doyle, is quoted in the Press Release as stating, “We believe York systematically denied valid workers’ comp claims for first responders seriously injured in the line of duty. The complaint alleges these men and women put their life and health on the line every day, and they counted on York to honor its commitments to timely and properly take care of their medical and financial needs if they got hurt. Unfortunately, this workers’ compensation claims handling company has shown a complete disregard for its legal and moral responsibilities.”
In the last paragraph of the Press Release—after offering a definition of the term “bad faith”—Doyle Raizner boasts that they are currently involved in litigation against KBR (a world-wide engineering and construction company that has over 27,000 employees world-wide). [United States District Court for the District of Oregon; Case 3:09-CV-632-PK]. They state the case is on appeal but that the presiding judge entered an 81 million dollar judgment in favor of 12 members of the Oregon National Guard exposed to harmful chemicals while deployed in Iraq.
Here is the Press Release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb10992992.htm
Upon reading this Press Release online at PR Web, this writer experienced a rectangular pop-up with a message: Hi, you may just be browsing but we are available to answer your questions. Click Yes for live help. At the top the Doyle Raizner LLP logo appears. This rectangular pop-up is placed over the Banner, shown in part, below:
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