Katrina Bookman

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Katrina Bookman visited the Queens, New York casino in late August and started playing on one of the floor's slot machines. According to the New York Daily News, the machine on which Bookman was. Jun 24, 2018 In August 2016, Katrina Bookman was gambling at Resorts World Casino in Brooklyn, New York. While playing a shot machine, she received a surprise when the machine seemed to indicate that she had won, flashing lights and playing music, according to Courthouse News.

Katrina Bookman lawsuit: A Queens woman files a suit against a local casino after refusing to pay a $43m jackpot they claim was an error.

Katrina Bookman, a Queens woman has launched a lawsuit against New York’s Resorts World Casino after contending that the casino offered her a free steak dinner instead of $43 million jackpot earnings.

It was while Bookman was playing at the Rockaway Beach venue last August that Bookman took a screenshot in front of the ‘Sphinx Slot Machine’ showing she’d just won the grand prize of f $42,949,672.76.

Easier said than done.

When bookman went to collect her cash, casino employees told her she hadn’t actually won and offered her a complimentary steak dinner and $2.25 — the prize they claim her slot machine actually should have delivered.

Bookman’s lawyer, Alan Ripka, told CNN Money his ‘outraged’ client turned down the offer. Instead, the mother of four filed a lawsuit against the casino off Rockaway Boulevard in the Queens County Supreme Court on Wednesday after repeated attempts of an an out-of-court settlement were snubbed.

Ripka is seeking $43 million in damages from the resort. The suit also takes aim at Genting New York LLC, the casino’s parent company, and International Game Technology — the maker of the slot machine — for alleged common-law negligence, breach of contract and negligent representation, according to the 17-page complaint.

‘You can’t claim a machine is broken because you want it to be broken. Does that mean it wasn’t inspected? Does it mean it wasn’t maintained?’ Ripka told CNN. ‘And if so, does that mean that people that played there before (Bookman) had zero chance of winning?’

A resort spokesperson had previously claimed Bookman’s win was the ‘result of an obvious malfunction,’ noting the Sphinx Slot Machine’s highest payout was $6,500.

Which is to wonder, instead of offering Bookman a scant $2.25 why didn’t it offer the woman who had played the game in good faith at the very least $6500?

Adding to the fissure, the state Gaming Commission also dismissedthe win as the machine displays a sign stating ‘Malfunctions void all pays and plays.’

The machine was taken out of service, repaired and put back a day later, the commission said.

Which is again to wonder, if it was malfunctioned, what was doing it being put out for the public who played the machine in good faith and who in hindsight never stood a chance of winning, despite the casino happily taking their money.

Since lodging her complaint, Bookman alleges the entire ordeal has caused her ‘mental anguish’ and resulted in a financial setback because she did not have ‘the chance and/or opportunity to win.’ Which is to also wonder, what is a mother who has four children dependent on her doing gambling any spare money she has at a casino?

Practices

Education

University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 2001

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, M.P.H., 2005

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2005

Yale Law School, L.L.M., 2006

Katrina Pagonis is chair of the firm's regulatory department and a nationally recognized expert on implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s market reforms, including the federal regulation of government-sponsored and private managed care plans and the establishment and operation of Health Insurance Exchanges (“Marketplaces”) like Covered California. Ms. Pagonis regularly advises clients on the impact of health care reform, as well as emerging health care reform proposals (from repeal-and-replace to single payer) at the state and national levels. She also provides regulatory and strategic advice to health care providers concerning managed care issues more generally, including out-of-network reimbursement, network configuration (narrow and tiered networks), reference pricing and cost-sharing limits, managed care contracting, and enrollment assistance activities.

In addition, Ms. Pagonis regularly assists health care providers—including hospitals, long-term care providers, suppliers, pharmacies, hospices, physicians and medical groups—with a broad range of regulatory and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement matters. She is an expert in site-neutrality initiatives for hospital outpatient services, meaningful use of electronic health records, health care technology, clinical trial agreements, antitrust, and internal investigations. Ms. Pagonis represents providers in government investigations and False Claims Act cases and assists providers that have credible information regarding potential overpayments with the investigation, identification, reporting, and returning of overpayments. Ms. Pagonis is a former judicial law clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Until 2012, she was a full-time professor of health law at Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Professional Affiliations

• American Health Lawyers Association, Chair of the Healthcare Reform Task Force
• American Bar Association, Health Law Section
• California Society of Healthcare Attorneys

Community/Civic Activities

• Advisory Board Member, Health Law Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law (2016 – present)

Honors & Awards

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• Super Lawyers® Northern California Rising Star, 2019

Presentations & Speaking Engagements

• Webinar, February 25, 2021
• Webinar, August 19, 2020
• Webinar, June 9, 2020
• Webinar, May 19, 2020
• April 16, 2020
• Webinar, April 2, 2020
• October 22, 2019 – The LA Grand Hotel Downtown, Los Angeles, CA; October 23, 2019 - Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Berkeley, CA
• Webinar, April 9, 2019
• Burlington, MA, December 7, 2018
• Napa Valley, CA, April 13-15, 2018
• Las Vegas, NV, November 2-3, 2017
• The Potential Impact of Health Reform, Changing Provider Contracts and Regulation on Managed Care Providers
  Berkeley: August 22, 2017 Los Angeles: August 24, 2017
• Los Angeles, CA, January 26, 2017
• San Francisco, CA, October 27-28, 2016
• December 17, 2014
• Webinar, November 21, 2014
• September 10, 2014
• April 11, 2014
• March 20, 2014
• February 26, 2014

• The ACA and the Transformation of the California Health Care Marketplace: Covered California, California Society for Healthcare Attorneys (Squaw Valley, April 2014)
• Affordable Care Act Webinar: How it Affects Lawyers and Small Businesses, The National Bar Association (April 2014)
• False Claims Act and 60-Day Reporting and Repayment Rule, U.C. Hastings College of the Law, Guest Lecturer for Health Law II (March 2014)
• Managed Care Contracting, California Dental Association, Dental Benefits Workshop (Sacramento, March 2014)
• Managed Care Webinar, California Association for Health Services at Home (March 2014)
• Access to Coverage and Care, the Exchanges, and Competition, U.C. Hastings College of the Law, Guest Lecturer for Health Law II (February 2014)
• Covered California and Providers, LACBA Health Care Law Section (Los Angeles, December 2013)
• Health Insurance Exchange Challenges and Solutions, Part V: Beyond January—Exchange‑Related Issues on the Horizon, American Health Lawyers Association Webinar (with Joel Hamme, Tim Jost, and Caitlyn Sweaney, October 2013)
• Covered California: Issues on the Horizon for Providers, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman Managed Care Seminars (Los Angeles & Berkeley, October 2013)
• Covered California: Legal and Business Concerns for Providers, Santa Clara University Law, Health Law I, Guest Lecture (October 2013)
• Insurance Exchanges and Inherent Changes Being Implemented Throughout the Health Insurance Marketplace, Dale Baker Conference on Health Reform (with Cliff King, Las Vegas, September 2013)
• Covered California: Enrollment & Marketing Opportunities for Providers, Plans and Agents, California Society for Health Care Attorneys Teleconference Presentation (September 2013)
• Health Exchanges: Proactive Legal Strategies for Providers, HLB-Strafford Webinar (with Martin Corry and Jack Ebeler, September 2013)
• Covered California: What Providers Need to Know Today About California’s Health Insurance Exchange, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman Webinar (with Martin Corry and Amanda Hayes-Kibreab, September 2013)
• Health Insurance Exchange Challenges and Solutions, Part II: Enrollment Assistance and Privacy and Security, American Health Lawyers Association Webinar (with L. Cook and D. Madala, August 2013)
• Enrollment Assistance in AAPI Communities: The Provider’s Role, Asian Health Care Leaders Association National Conference (July 2013)
• The Exchanges: Managed Care Contracting under the ACA, The Summit by ReviveHealth (New Orleans, May 15, 2013, with Glenn Solomon)
• Covered California: Health Benefits Exchange, U.C. Berkeley School of Public Health, Guest Lecturer for Legal Issues in Health Care (April 22, 2013)
• Managed Care Special Topics: Preparing for the Medi-Cal Managed Care Rural Expansion, Hospital Council of Northern & Central California (April 18, 2013, with Felicia Sze)
• Covered California: Health Benefits Exchange, LACBA/LACMA, The New Health Care Landscape (Los Angeles, March 7, 2013)
• Wellness Programs: Current Landscape & Coming Changes, HFMA (San Diego, February 28, 2013, with Johan Otter)
• Insurance Exchanges and Inherent Changes Being Implemented Throughout the Health Insurance Marketplace (Or “Is it 2014 Yet?”), The Conference on Health Reform (Las Vegas, September 21, 2012, with Cliff King)
• Federalism and the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, Hamline Law Alumni CLE (February 2012, with Morgan Holcomb)
• Hot Topics in Health Law: Palliative Care Issues, Ramsey County Bar Association CLE (St. Paul, MN, November 2009)

News

• Wolters Kluwer's Health Law Daily
• PRNewswire
• December 17, 2018
• December 21, 2017
• February 22, 2017
• BNA's Health Law Reporter
• February 11, 2016
• June 9, 2014

Health Law Perspectives

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• September 27, 2019
• June 20, 2019
• June 2018
• May 1, 2014

Other Publications

• BNA's Health Law Reporter, March 16, 2016

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Publications

Fraud & Abuse and the Exchanges: HHS Concludes that the Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans are not Subject to the Anti-Kickback Statute, Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, Health Law E-Alert (November 2013)

Covered California’s Enrollment Assistance Program, Health Law Perspectives 15:6 (with Kaitlyn Halesworth, September 2013)

Medi-Cal, The Exchanges, and Bridge Plans, Health Law Perspectives 15:2 (with Felicia Sze April 2013)

Smallpox Vaccination from Jenner to Jacobson: The Police Power, Individual Liberty, & Government Responsibility (for 2013 submission)

Gostin, Jacobson v. Massachusetts: The Police Power and Civil Liberties in Tension, in Health Law and Bioethics: Cases in Context (Richard Saver et al. eds., 2009, with Lawrence O.)

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Contextualizing Personalized Medicine Evidence-Based Medicine in the Genomic Era, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Personalized Medicine Forum (Washington, DC, June 2008, Paper Presentation with Patricia A. King)