Liberty Mutual Insurance Company will pay 4.7 million dollars in a bribery settlement.  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) found evidence of bribery by employees in one of its subsidiaries.  The DOJ’s investigation into an India-based subsidiary, Liberty General Insurance (LGI) found that over a five-year period, from 2017 to 2022, employers paid 1.47 million... Read More

Matthew Rifat further argued in his closing brief in his California Bar Trial that Dr. Robin Chorn owned Blue Oak Medical Group twice.  He owned the practice once during 2015 and through the end of that year; and then once again in 2017.  Matthew got the specific dates wrong in his closing brief, but during... Read More

Into Matthew Rifat’s final brief, which was filed on April 4th 2025, in his California Bar trial, he continued to discuss his testimony from that Bar trial.  In 2014, Senate Bill 863 or SB 863, the workers’ compensation reform legislation, was passed and faced opposition.  This legislation retroactively imposed filing fees on medical provider claims... Read More

Matthew Rifat has been quite a businessman and not just a lawyer.  It seems to this writer that even if he were to get disbarred, that wouldn’t stop him from being a prosperous and wealthy businessman.  F. Lee Bailey has been called the “greatest criminal defense attorney of the 20th Century”, and yet he got... Read More

Now here’s the start of the review of Matthew Rifat’s closing brief, which was written and then turned into the Court on April 4th 2025.  This is after this writer’s review of all the arguments from the California Bar Association prosecution, the Office of Chief Trial Counsel, as to why Matthew should be disbarred.  Matthew... Read More

Consumers who have purchased policies from Innovative Partners are encouraged by the California Insurance Department to call the Department for assistance.   Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a Cease and Desist Order against Innovative Partners, LP for illegally acting as an insurance company in California, and providing health insurance coverage without proper certification.  The Department also has... Read More

Another big argument against Matthew Rifat by the Office of Chief Trial Counsel of the California Bar Association was the oddness that the Bar found in that it didn’t fit when Dr. Chorn at a dinner meeting asked Matthew Rifat “How is Blue Oak doing” and “How is Dr. Uwaydah making money?” from the practice. ... Read More

There was the case called “Oheb” which the California Bar prosecution used to illustrate that the attorney in that case had many opportunities to protect himself but didn’t.  An individual that attorney hired, stole from him, forged his signature, and worked with clients without that lawyer’s permission or oversight.  He just let himself get run... Read More