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A better headline might read "I wrote a review on Yelp in which I accused a doctor of committing insurance fraud on other patients that I had no actual knowledg
by pliftkl 8y ago
A better headline might read "I wrote a review on Yelp in which I accused a doctor of committing insurance fraud on other patients that I had no actual knowledge of, and it made my life a nightmare".
Courts have established that you can write negative reviews and that they fall well within rights to freedom of speech. She isn't being sued for giving the guy a one-star review and saying "This place sucks". There's one sentence she wrote that has cost her $20k:
"I suspect that this doctor gives unnecessary procedure to
a lot of people and then charges the insurance sky high
prices and no one knows the difference."
- grimgrin 8y agoHold on, you cut the title short. It'd end with a comma, then "and they posted my entire medical record, bills, insurance info, home address, etc"
- megy 8y agoWhere did they post them though? They didn't post them to Yelp, you can't do that. They didn't post them on their own website. Where would they have posted them?
- oliv__ 8y agoWell, if it happens to one patient, how likely is it that this is common practice? Also, she started the sentence with "I suspect", which is very different from a plain accusation.
- conanbatt 8y agoYou cant veil an accusation under a single adjective, come on.. It might happen to many others, but her accusation is baseless and she is responsible for it. Suing for libel is an appropriate right.
- iron0013 8y agoHow is it baseless?
- conanbatt 8y agoShe has no evidence whatsoever that this happened to someone else.
- tomtimtall 8y agoShe has absolute evidence that she in fact suspects this.
- deaddodo 8y agoIt also seems like this is a go-to tactic of hers. If you check here: https://www.yellowpages.com/user/503859115/reviews https://www.yellowpages.com/user/503859115/reviews 2014 review by one "Michelle L" of New York, NY. Starts with the exact same byline: "Very poor and crooked business practice.". Completely different practice. One with great reviews, for the most part.
- jessaustin 8y agoWow how did you find that?
- danso 8y agoYou can google for the exact phrase, "Very poor and crooked business practice", which is attributed to her review of the doctor.
- jessaustin 8y agoIf it's that simple, how do we know that she, rather than e.g. someone at the gynecologist's office, wrote this review?
- deaddodo 8y agoBecause it's not a word-for-word reposting. The details are different between the two. And she plastered it on multiple sites, similar to the claim regarding Dr Yoon's review. I'm not saying it was or wasn't the doctor posting it. Just pointing out that if it was her who posted the dental review, she seems to have a similar story happen to her frequently. Which is suspect.
- jessaustin 8y agoYes that makes sense. It's probably not important for us to know "the truth" at this time. This seems like the sort of thing that our courts can sort out.