Medicare Secondary Payer Recovery and Sec. 111 Reporting: Duties of Insurers, Primary Payer, Defense Counsel

Mr. Cattie focuses his law practice exclusively on MSP and MSA issues, providing legal opinions regarding reporting and repayment obligations as well as assessing a client’s future medical exposure under the MSP Act. In the MSA area, he has personally reviewed or overseen the review of over 10,000 distinct fact patterns. Federal and state court opinions such as Smith v. Marine Terminals of Arkansas, Tye v. Upper Valley Medical Center, and Doe v. Company X cite his analysis favorably.

Mr. Cranner is a versatile litigator with broad experience over the last forty years defending Medical Liability, Product Liability, Asbestos, and general insurance cases. His commercial litigation practice is centered on healthcare providers and includes non-compete disputes, licensure matters and business disputes. Mr. Cranner serves as the Independent Counsel to the Louisiana Board of Dentistry. He frequently serves as a mediator in complex cases involving Medicare Secondary payer issues, among other issues. Mr. Cranner's experience as a defense trial lawyer has included over 40 jury trials to verdict, including cases involving complex medical issues and serious injuries or deaths. This including trials involving Cardiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pain Management, Orthopedics and toxic substance exposure. Mr. Cranner often defends manufacturers of medical devices, sporting goods and recreational products including exercise equipment, watercraft, motorized vehicles, personal flotation devices, go karts and industrial equipment and munitions. He is national coordinating asbestos trial counsel for an engineering company based in New York involved in litigation across the United States. Mr. Cranner's representative list of cases tried include matters involving Legionnaire’s Disease and refrigerated display cases (Dorman Crowe v Winn Dixie, in which there were 70 claims and 13 deaths); The Consolidated Vitek Jaw (TMJ) Implant Litigation (including Class Action of 25,000.00 plaintiffs—James and Ette v LSU and Dr. Kent); tear gas and OC grenades (Lewis v. CTS—a death case), wakeboard vests (Pickett v Jet Pilot—a death case), and interventional pain management (Sappington v. Hubbell).

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