Q: Hello. I brought an age-discrimination suit pro sein the Phila. Court of Common Pleasin 2016 . The defendants were a
Phila.-based electrician's union,
IBEW-98. I alleged that the union
failed to admit me into an apprentice program due to my age of 60, despite very high
written test scores.I reached an out-of-court settlement with the
union for the nominal sum of
$2000 plus filing costs, for a total
of $2355.00 .An agreement was
prepared by the union attorney, which I signed and returned.
The difficulty with this settlement arose with the union's
liability insurance company, This
was USLI, Inc., in Montgomery
County, Pa. In clearing the settlement with Medicare as
required by law, USLI provided
erroneous information, using a
Medicare code of 30000 for "anxiety", suggesting that my claim had a medical component, which it did not. Consequently,
medical bills which I incurred in 2014 were erroneously associated by Medicare with the
IBEW-98 settlement. I believe that I have a case against USLI for
negligent misrepresentation.Would you agree?
A: No. They should help you by retracting the document. But it's not misrepresntation.
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