Eric J. Danowitz

About

Eric J. Danowitz is an attorney in our Newport Beach office who practices in the areas of insurance special investigation litigation, healthcare litigation, worker’s compensation defense, Special Lien Proceedings before the Special Adjudication Unit of the Department of Workers Compensation and civil qui tam litigation.

HEALTHCARE LITIGATION

Eric has been practicing in the field of healthcare since 2008 and has been counsel on several of the largest and most complex qui tam fraud lactions in the State of California. All of these qui tams related to purported healthcare services and billing. In addition to qui tam litigation, Mr. Danowitz has been and is currently the lead/liaison counsel for all insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and self-insured employers in almost all of the currently pending Special Lien Proceedings through Labor Code Section 139.21, as well as the various consolidations related to medical and non-medical service providers challenging the automatic stay provision of Labor Code Section 4615. Over the years Mr. Danowitz has regularly lectured at the Anti-Fraud Alliance Conference, the Southern California Fraud Insurance Association Conference, and the International Association of Special Investigation Units Conference on issues related to healthcare fraud, special investigations, pharmaceutical fraud, and discovery tactics and deposition strategy in complex healthcare litigation.

Mr. Danowitz’s primary area of practice is healthcare. This includes representation of medical companies in business litigation, employment disputes, and trade secret litigation. Mr. Danowitz also litigates workers compensation matters, California Civil Matters and federal litigation related to disputes related to healthcare, including fraud, contract disputes, and intellectual property rights.

BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION

Mr. Danowitz other area of practice is both as plaintiff and defendant is complex business litigation disputes. These include Unfair Business Practice actions, fraud, corporate opportunity disputes, intellectual property, and breach of contract.

Mr. Danowitz also regularly defends actions related to employment, such as wage/hour, PAGA defense, wrongful termination, and discrimination matters.

CALIFORNIA WORKERS COMPENSATION/LONGSHOREMAN CONFLICT

Mr. Danowitz has consulted with various employers in relation to workplace injuries which occur at the Port, and the issues that arise and whether the claim is under the jurisdiction of the CA Workers’ Compensation Act, or whether the accident/injury is subject to the Longshoremen’s’ Act and which laws would apply in determining the litigation of such claims, and the calculation of benefits under each.

Mr. Danowitz also pioneered the workers’ compensation claims/lien consolidation procedures at the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board and has litigated over 50 lien consolidations to date. Eric regularly represents clients before the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, California Superior Court, as well as representing insurance carriers as victims of fraud in criminal matters filed in the State of California.

Mr. Danowitz was named the International Association of Special Investigation Units – Southern California Chapter Attorney of the Year in 2014 and has been named as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2017 and 2020.