Angelotti Decision at Center of Latest Constitutional Challenge

A 2015 U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that California's lien-activation fee mandate did not constitute a due-process violation is once again at the center of a legal challenge. Plaintiffs, including a provider who is accused of accepting kickbacks to prescribe compound creams to workers’ compensation patients, filed with the U.S. District Court for Central California a complaint alleging the mandatory lien stay provision in last year’s Senate Bill 1160 is unconstitutional. In court filings submitted Tuesday, plaintiffs argued that the appellate court’s Angel...