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May 7, 2021 5:33 pm

My firm's open enrollment is now (always thought it was wierd that its not end of the year like most people). Four plans offered, monthly premiums for family range from $1160 to $1730. This is ridiculous. There are numerous obamacare plans that are better and cheaper (especially with the newer lower costs the became effective in the last stimulus bill). I do find it very odd that my firm didn't even mention our option to look to the obamacare plans for better options. How much longer till we can all agree that we need single payer healthcare in America?

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May 7, 2021 5:41 pm
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The latest stimulus bill contains a $2M earmark for a pickleball court. And you think govt run healthcare is the answer to your "problem." Get a grip on reality. And, have you actually looked into the ACA plans recently? They're nowhere near as "good" as the plans when the ACA first passed, thanks to the lie that it would decrease health insurance costs. Stop whining and trying to force me to pay for your family you can't afford.

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May 7, 2021 5:43 pm
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Seriously. I'd much rather pay thousands in taxes and get single payer than pay 10k/yr just to have to fight with my insurer to pay for stuff that should be covered.

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May 7, 2021 5:44 pm
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10:41 get the red herring award today! The US spends way more per capita on health insurance expenses than most other developed countries, with worse outcomes.

I don't know how we compare on pickleball courts, though. Maybe we've got that locked up as #1

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May 7, 2021 6:05 pm
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Single payer means total socialized medicine and then hardly anyone gets medical care. Rationing. Budget–they run out of money. Net result if you want/need medical care you have to pay for it in cash out of your pocket in a single payer. Canada- you wait six months for an MRI, knee surgery and anything elective. Bernie Sanders might not have gotten the care he got in Las Vegas that saved his life with single payer/socialized medicine. There is not the health care infrastructure in Nevada and the rest of the country to support single payer or universal health coverage. Obamacare created expensive health insurance. My health insurance went up four times with Obamacare since it was enacted. Also, there will be companies selling supplemental health insurance in single payer and doctors providing concierge care with single payer. This is how it works in the Europena continent. Basically if you want the medical care you have now you will have to pay regardless.

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May 7, 2021 6:43 pm
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"I do find it very odd that my firm didn't even mention our option to look to the obamacare plans for better options." Your firm has to tell you that you have a right to shop around for insurance when you just indicated above that you knew that you had the right to look at other options?

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May 7, 2021 6:56 pm
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11:43 – I was referring more to the multiple less educated, single parent paralegals, assistants, and staff who are already working paycheck to paycheck and too stressed with life to spend hours researching the 50+ obamacare plans available.

Thanks for your snarkiness though…I'm sure you're a pleasure to deal with. People like you are probably why people hate lawyers.

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May 7, 2021 7:16 pm
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"less educated, single parent paralegals." I would concur with 11:43 that your equation of single parents with less educated is only slightly problematic. But you keep thinking that condescending attitude makes that support staff think you REALLY do care about them.

Signed,
Single Parent Dad who is doing quite fine thanks

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May 7, 2021 7:20 pm
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Christian Healthcare Ministries. $600 a month premiums. No deductible. They paid every penny of my $35,000.00 surgery bill. Praise be. There's no point in paying a $1700 premium with a ridiculous deductible.

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May 7, 2021 7:33 pm
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Let's just take Christian Healthcare Ministries and scale it nationwide!

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May 7, 2021 8:11 pm
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High deductible plan with direct primary care provider is the way to go. I switched to high deductible with an HSA years ago and never looked back.

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May 7, 2021 8:22 pm
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@ 10:48
"Seriously. I'd much rather pay thousands in taxes and get single payer than pay 10k/yr just to have to fight with my insurer to pay for stuff that should be covered."

Do you seriously believed that a government bureaucracy, the sole source for health care, is going to be more responsive and provide better service than a private insurer competing in the market place?

Before you tell me how good socialized medicine is, please note that Canadians who can afford it come to the US for medical care, whereas regular folks wait many months to get a slot or are denied.

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May 7, 2021 8:33 pm
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The right's talking point is always that Canadians can't get health care and so they have to come here. Every Canadian I've ever met says that's false and their healthcare is fine. Wait times depend on severity, whether it's emergent or not, and where you're located/seeking treatment…just like here. The only real difference is they don't bankrupt people or let them die because they can't afford treatment.

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May 7, 2021 8:35 pm
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10:48 here,

"Do you seriously believed that a government bureaucracy, the sole source for health care, is going to be more responsive and provide better service than a private insurer competing in the market place?"

Yeah. One, Medicare has way lower percentage of overhead compared to private insurance. Two, private insurers don't compete in the marketplace. When was the last time you shopped for health insurance? You just take your choice from the plans that your employer gives your. Three, the rest of the developed world can pull it off.

I suspect we'd find some common ground in divorcing health care from employment.

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May 7, 2021 8:58 pm
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The argument that a corporation is better than the govt is bizarre to me. Your private insurance company literally (like the actual meaning of the word, not the millennial meaning of the word) profits from denying you care. They bonus employees to deny your claims. The government is staffed by a bunch of bureaucrats who have no dog in the fight. I'll take gov't healthcare every time.

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May 8, 2021 12:21 am
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@ 1:58 @ 1:35
You greatly over estimate the benevolence of government. And you are completely wrong about government employees not having a stake in outcomes. Several federal agencies pay bonuses on performance. Others rate and base promotions and I believe step increases on performance.

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May 8, 2021 1:06 am
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Medicare lowest overhead, No competition in the market place.
It's painful to read these comments made by educated people. As someone who was charged with buying group insurance, I can tell you that the various insurers bid the contract to provide coverage. Your employer selects one of the plans offered. The bids/quotes are based on the claims history of your group (read your firm name here). If you have a lot of overweight and unhealthy people in your group, your premium goes up. Have a small group and one person has a bypass surgery, your premium goes up.

With regard to Medicare, it is solvent only through 2026. Medicare unloads its overhead substantially to private insurance. Note also that private carriers compete here too. You see the heavy advertising every fall alternatives to traditional Medicare. These insurer's are paid fixed price per head and operate within their budget. Yet Aetna, Blue Cross and other majors are regarded as providing good health care.

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May 8, 2021 4:15 pm
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I second the notion that "[i]t's painful to read these comments made by educated people." In fact, I seriously doubt that many commentators are even involved in the legal community; the remarks and comments are that inane. (Or, let's call them what they really are: stooopid!) So, I'll reiterate something I've said before: if you're not an attorney or otherwise educated member of the legal community, STAY OFF THIS BLOG! Go port your ignorance and nonsense over to Parler, or Fox.

That being said, insurance involves risk. Indeed, insurance is the substitution of a known, small payment for a possible, probabilistic, and larger unknown payment. And the risk is lower if the risk pool is larger. Cf. investing in a basket of stocks as opposed to investing in a single stock. This concept is a fact and can be proven mathematically. One of the the premises of Obamacare, or national health insurance, is that the risk pool is larger, thereby substantially lowering costs. But that's only one advantage. There is no profit motive. Also, the government can negotiate lower prices, as opposed to the public begin raped by high costs, particularly drug costs. Finally, public health is a public good. (I assume most everybody here, being an "educated" attorney, has taken a course in economics and knows what that is. If you don't, then LOOK IT UP!) And public goods necessitate public funding, or at least carefully regulated and highly controlled government-private partnerships (a viable option to national healthcare, BTW).

For these reasons (as implicated by the foregoing paragraph) and more, the current system is not working, as demonstrated by the fact that we have the highest per-capita healthcare costs in the western world with correspondingly low aggregate outcomes. For those ignoramuses listening to the Fox propagandist pablum, you should be critical of your sources, as Fox is NOT NEWS; it is a bullhorn for the Republican party, who promote the interests of the reigning plutocracy over the national weal.

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May 8, 2021 11:55 pm
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@5:21 – 1:58 here. Performance is one thing, denying coverage is another. Health insurance companies directly tie bonuses and compensation to denial of claims. The federal govt certainly has incentives for employees, but that is performance based, not based on denying coverage. Add to that my comment was regarding single payer health care which would eliminate denial of coverage. So thanks for adding nothing to the conversation.

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May 10, 2021 5:42 pm
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@ 5:21 / 1:58
I doubt that bonuses for denial of coverage is fact, except maybe in a Grisham novel. Covered procedures are stated at length in the annual enrollment package as are covered medications. You agree to whatever limitations are stated when you enroll.

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May 10, 2021 7:47 pm
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10:42 – you're completely wrong. Insurance agents get bonused for denying coverage. Happens all the time. It's not a Grisham novel…it's real life. Like it's been proven in court in bad faith litigation in every single state. The enrollment packages are worded so they can fuck you over any time they want. I frankly do not care what you "doubt"…go research bad faith insurance and actually educate yourself.

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May 10, 2021 8:27 pm
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10:42: Have to agree with 12:47. I do not work in PI so I know almost nothing about insurance companies, but even with a teenager's understanding of business (any business), it would seem certain that somewhere along the chain of management someone gets bonused out for profitability–which is inextricably tied to denied coverage for claims– and then shit rolls down hill from there. Thus, even someone with the smallest shred of logic and/or real world experience would have to conclude that the default culture in an insurance company would necessarily revolve around an incentive to deny claims whenever possible.

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May 7, 2021 5:47 pm

Some of the comments yesterday mentioned upheaval at Ackerman and Ballard. Any truth to these rumors?

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May 7, 2021 6:29 pm
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No. Get back to work.

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May 7, 2021 6:47 pm
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Ok, anyone with any actual knowledge of these firms want to comment?

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May 7, 2021 8:12 pm
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Yes. No truth. Now get back to work.

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May 7, 2021 8:53 pm
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Yes, Akerman is down to like 5 associates. Two partners in Vegas. What a shame.

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May 7, 2021 10:11 pm
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This person asking about Ackerman and Ballard staff reductions is getting shot down as if they are questioning a huge and universally beloved celebrity about something that is quite crudely phrased and which really intrudes upon their personal privacy.

So, is this firm such undisputed rock stars, and is the inquiry(merely asking if they have had a reduction of associates) so intensely private and improper that it justifies some rude poster to no less than twice attack the poster who asked that question by saying "No. Now get back to work."

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May 7, 2021 10:26 pm
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Agreed. It has a doth protest too much sort of vibe to it. Hitting too close to home.

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May 7, 2021 11:24 pm
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How is Alverson Tylor doing? Did anyone ever buy their building on West Charleston?

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May 7, 2021 11:27 pm
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4:24. They are doing extremely well. Status of the building is highly confidential. Now stop asking about them, and immediately return to work

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May 8, 2021 12:25 am
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@4:27. You made me literally (and not in the millennial way) lol.

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May 8, 2021 7:32 pm
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@ 4:24– Yes Eddie Haddad bought Alverson's building in 2018 and is sitting on it. https://maps.clarkcountynv.gov/assessor/AssessorParcelDetail/parceldetail.aspx?hdnParcel=16303101013&hdnInstance=pcl7

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May 9, 2021 1:35 am
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4:27 here, reminding 4:24 to only speak of such firm with the utmost of respect and reverence.

And the same goes for 12:32. And, BTW, 12:32, take back what you said about Alverson Taylor either being so desperate, and/or exercising such poor judgment, that they would let their building be sold to Eddie Haskell, the neighborhood brat from "leave It To Beaver."

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May 7, 2021 5:50 pm

The letters and threats in that Caesar's case are crazy

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May 7, 2021 6:06 pm

I'm so bored. Can Mr. Ross, who always virtue signals about everyone except white males, please post something about how woke he is? I love those posts!! The thought of him looking in mirror and seeing how virtuous he feels after hitting send truly makes me laugh until I cry. Hahaha please just one post where he tries to be witty. It's like watching a drunk dog try to fly a space craft haha

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May 7, 2021 9:37 pm

I heard a prominent Vegas firm's entire system has been taken hostage by ransomware. Can someone confirm? Which firm is it?

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May 7, 2021 9:42 pm
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It happened to the firm I work at a year ago. We were down for a week and we recently had data sold on the black market.

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May 7, 2021 10:43 pm
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Why didn't you pay the ransom?

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May 8, 2021 12:21 am
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Must be what's going on with Ackerman and Ballard. Guess the LVLB sleuths cracked the code.

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May 8, 2021 7:20 pm
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I work at such a firm which is located on E. Bridger

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May 7, 2021 11:41 pm

The Nevada Supreme Court said that if Craig Mueller did not file his Opening Brief in the Bundy appeal, in a timely manner, it would refer him to the SBN for an investigation. Does anyone know if the NSC made the referral?

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May 8, 2021 7:19 pm
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Until there is an Order of the Court dismissing the appeal and making the referral, there has been no referral.

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May 9, 2021 1:22 am

There is an Order dismissing appeal. Does the court include the referral with the Order or is the referral confidential?

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May 9, 2021 2:36 am

Lifts my spirits to see Kim Gardner being held accountable. Out of control prosecutors with political agendas need to face the music.

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May 9, 2021 7:13 pm

With Mueller's track record for failing to abide by NSC orders why isn't he or his office checking the Bundy or or Plumlee cases on the NSC website every day? Believe me, there are attorneys checking those appeals every single day salivating over every Mueller screw up.

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May 9, 2021 11:55 pm
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Nevada Supreme Court's orders are a joke, so sometimes ignoring them is justified.

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May 10, 2021 12:40 am
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Tell that to your client who just lost his chance for an appeal.

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May 10, 2021 1:23 am
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Three recent Nevada Suprem Court orders my former firm worked on are factually false. One case involving my colleague is factually and legally false as well. I reviewed the brief before it was filed. The one I worked on was Nevada Court of Appeals. People of Nevada are getting screwed by the Nevada Court of Appeals.

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May 10, 2021 1:37 am
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Mueller was given an extension to a definite date to file an opening brief for his client. He failed to file an Opening Brief by that date. Days later respondent filed a motion to dismiss appeal which was granted. His client lost his chance for an appeal.

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May 9, 2021 7:26 pm

In Plumlee, a Judge Scotti DUI dismissal case, the Nevada Legislature and Office of the Public Defender have filed Amicus Curiae briefs against Mueller's position.

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May 9, 2021 7:31 pm

Wrong public defender supports Mueller.

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May 10, 2021 2:42 pm
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Should be a period after wrong.