Benefits Law Journal, “Take the Health Care or Leave It: Is Your Assignment of Benefits an Unenforceable Adhesion Contract?” by Abbye Alexander, Esq., Christopher Tellner, Esq. and Henry Norwood, Esq., 12-30-2025
Kaufman Dolowich’s Abbye Alexander and Christopher Tellner, Co-Chairs of the Healthcare/Managed Care Practice Group, and Henry Norwood, San Francisco Of Counsel, discuss in this insightful Benefits Law Journal article the powerful adhesion contract defense, which can invalidate an assignment of benefits (AOB) underlying a healthcare provider’s standing and result in dismissal of a provider’s lawsuit. This defense, which has been raised in other contexts for years, essentially argues that the circumstances surrounding execution of the AOB were unfair to the patient and exerted undue pressure to sign, which should operate to deem the AOB invalid.
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