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Thread re-opened. The answer to your question is to a certain extent state- and municipality-specific. I doubt you will find a law with a bright line: you may go without paying your property tax for x years but not x plus one. This is a question you will have to take up with the tax authorities...

I cannot imagine a set of circumstances under which any business, university, or other entity would not require that the legal department be involved first, last and in every step along the way. That's not trying to hide something; that's just plain common sense.

This is not an attorney referral service and reputable attorneys do not troll message boards looking for clients. You cannot find representation here. If you want to determine whether you have any kind of legal standing to bring suit (which is not clear from your post) please contact your State...

HR professional and former conductor of such interviews here: It is not at all appropriate, or wise, for us to try to coach her on what to say or not say. Without a great deal more information that a third party can, or should, post here and including information neither you nor she may know...

My husband takes a medication that cost $600 for three months on our old insurance where it was not on the formulary and we had to self-pay. And at that we had to use the mail order program or it wasn't available at all. Today on our current insurance? $10 a month at our local mom-and-pop pharmacy.

Your MEDICAL information is confidential unless you give written permission otherwise. Your complaint about the employee is not confidential. While sometimes it is possible to keep confidential the identity of the complainer, it isn't always possible, and even when the name of the complainer is...

So, the offending employee doesn't know who she said or did what to. "We had a complaint about x" and the employee knows who she said or did x too, and presto!

Isn't a pharmacy refusing a cash payment where this whole thread started?

As long as the pharmacy is willing to fill it. They are not obligated to do so.

Not even remotely illegal. How do you imagine they're to fix the problem you complained about without telling the offender what was said?

Do I approve of revoking approved PTO? No. Is there sometimes a business necessity for it? Yes.

In other words, you're prepared to lie and cheat to get your own way.

But is it CVS that is requiring the pre-auth? Or is the pre-auth required by the terms of the insurance contract? If, as I suspect, it's in the insurance contract, changing pharmacies is not going to solve the problem.

I'm willing to bet that somewhere in there, there is a qualifier that the employee actually has to be sick to use them. I seriously doubt that the CA legislature intended these days to be a forced-by-the-employee extension of vacation time.

I understood that he wanted to pay for the medication up front and then be reimbursed by the insurance, in which case the insurance carrier makes the rules. But if he wanted to by-pass the insurance altogether, then I agree with you; the pharmacy can allow it but doesn't have to.

40 years experience with group medical insurance here: First of all; Is this legal? Yes. Your insurance policy is a contract. It says they will pay for certain items when certain conditions are followed. This is one of the conditions. What if I didn't have insurance? Then there wouldn't be a...

For workers comp in MN, the maximum time the law allows is six months after the onset of the illness or injury. Your specific policy might indicate a shorter time and that is acceptable under the law. Only someone from your HR or Benefits office can tell you for certain where the lines are drawn.

I'm not seeing anything to suggest that the OP is being sued by a hospital. But your point is well taken, Jack. I'm not seeing anything to suggest that it ISN'T a hospital either.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe an attorney's office is subject to HIPAA.

Not exactly. Workers comp is limited to illnesses or injuries which are CAUSED BY your employment or a factor thereof. It does not apply to illnesses or injuries which may have manifested themselves while at work but are not caused by your work. The classic example is a heart attack. Even if you...