Benoit v. Turner Industries Group, LLC

hi respectfully dissent from the portion of the per curiam holding defendant Turner Industries is not responsible for the $422,043.59 which was written off by the medical care providers. This result does not faithfully apply the relevant statute and leads to a manifestly inequitable outcome. Indeed, the majority rewards Turner for acting in bad faith by refusing to pay the medical bills rightly owed to plaintiff Jerry Wayne Benoit after he suffered catastrophic and terminal cancer. This is not the result required by the statute or intended by the Legislature.1

Jerry Benoit worked for Turner…