www.kaiserinjurylawyer.com (888) 732-8897. When you became a Kaiser member, whether you signed up on your own, or your employer signed up for you, or you became a member of Kaiser through some kind of a group health plan, your rights to a jury trial against Kaiser in the event of any medical malpractice were signed away. Both the California Supreme Court and the California Appellate Courts have upheld Kaiser's right to force you into arbitration in the event of a claim against Kaiser for medical malpractice. An arbitration is not a jury trial; an arbitration is a private proceeding. Your Kaiser plan health contract provides that any dispute you have against Kaiser relating to any aspect of your medical care is subject to binding arbitration. That means that any dispute you have against Kaiser is going to be decided outside the court system and it's going to be decided without any right of appeal. Whatever the arbitrator decides in your case will be the final and binding result of your claim.Our clients often ask us whether they should stay with Kaiser or leave Kaiser if they're going to prosecute a claim. Our advice is that they should do what's best for them based upon good, sound medical advice. In more than 30 years we have never seen Kaiser retaliate against a patient for having brought a legal claim. And Kaiser does not have the legal power to terminate you from your health plan agreement because you have exercised your legal rights. Many of our clients remain Kaiser ...
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