Carriers, Patients Seek to Delay Pacific Hospital Restitution

A group of patients who had surgeries performed at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, and a separate group of carriers who paid for the procedures, say they weren’t properly notified about the process for requesting restitution and that a federal court shouldn’t award any money during a hearing Friday. The pair of last-minute filings from injured workers and carriers, both represented by the same three law firms, asks the U.S. District Court for Central California to put off for 180 days a decision on whether and how much Michael D. Drobot, the former owner of the hospital, ...