Legal Opinion
Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Health & Welfare Fund v. Lewis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 12, 2014No. 13-2214PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The defendants appeal from an order of the district court holding them in contempt. Beverly Lewis was injured in an automobile accident in Georgia, and her health plan (the principal plaintiff in this case) paid $180,000 for the cost of her medical treatment (we round off all dollar figures to the nearest thousand). Represented by the other defendant in the present suit, Georgia lawyer David T. La-shgari, Lewis brought a tort suit in Georgia state court against the driver of the car involved in the accident (her son-in-law), and obtained a $500,000 settlement. The plan…
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