Terese A. Mosher Beluris has extensive experience litigating actions on behalf of health care service plans, management services organizations (MSOs), and providers involved in commercial and managed care disputes. She has also represented financial institutions, fiduciaries, companies and individuals in complex and high stakes litigation, including civil extortion, contested water rights, tortious interference, breach of fiduciary duty, fraudulent transfers, wrongful dishonor claims, contested conservatorship proceedings, will contests, actions for return of abducted children, and actions for breaches of trust and testamentary promise in civil, family law, and probate courts.
In the managed care arena, Ms. Mosher Beluris has litigated putative class actions and other actions on behalf of health plans, health care providers and intermediaries. She has been lead trial counsel in significant matters concerning the imposition of liability upon health care service plans following the default of MSOs and other intermediaries, the defense of pharmaceutical utilization review under the precepts of California Business and Professions Code Section 2056, and alleged violations of due process or fair procedure. She also has substantive experience in risk pool disputes and other conflicts involving remuneration issues between health care providers and health plans.
Ms. Mosher Beluris has successfully defended various entities against governmental and/or private claims that they were engaged in the corporate practice of medicine or dentistry and has petitioned for judicial review of state decisions not to award health services-related contracts to petitioners.