Hillenbrand v. Meyer Medical Group, S.C.

The plaintiffs, Carmen Hülenbrand and James G. Uzzell, filed this class action against the defendants, Meyer Medical Group, S.C. (Meyer), Health Cost Controls of Illinois, Inc. (HCC), and Chicago HMO, alleging that Meyer and HCC asserted an invalid and unauthorized physician’s lien against a third-party recovery received by Hillenbrand. Chicago HMO was dismissed from this action, and the plaintiffs have not appealed from that order. At the hearing on Meyer and HCC’s motions for summary judgment, the trial court concluded that the plaintiffs’ action was preempted by federal law and entered…