LIFEBRITE HOSPITAL GROUP OF STOKES, LLC v. BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF NORTH CAROLINA

  1. March 26, 2026

    McDonald Hopkins Must Produce Fraud Warning Docs

    Midwestern law firm McDonald Hopkins LLC must produce email communications in connection with litigation accusing Blue Cross units of a smear campaign against a clinical lab owner, an Ohio federal judge ruled, finding the documents were not protected by work product or attorney-client privilege.

  2. April 29, 2025

    BCBS Wants Hospital Sanctioned For 'Cat-And-Mouse' Tactics

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina asked a federal judge to sanction a hospital company and its related entities for their purported "evasion, obfuscation, misdirection and outright misrepresentation" during discovery in a $32 million billing dispute that has gone on for seven years.

  3. January 13, 2025

    Blue Cross Can't Skirt NC Hospital's Defamation Claims

    A local hospital can pursue some of its defamation claims against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina in a suit alleging the health insurer wrongly denied millions of dollars in reimbursements and falsely accused the facility of fraud, a federal judge ruled Monday.

  4. November 29, 2023

    BCBS Accuses NC Hospital Of Hiding Lab Info In Fraud Suit

    Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has demanded that a hospital and its laboratory hand over a raft of testing and screening information the insurer says the hospital billed but did not perform.

  5. August 10, 2023

    Blue Cross Can Subpoena Lab Exec's Atty In Fraud Suit

    A North Carolina federal judge has ruled that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina can subpoena an attorney who represented a hospital group that's suing the insurance giant over a breach of contract, rejecting an argument that the attorney is protected because previous testimony from the lab's founder waived attorney-client privilege.