Hon. Nat A. Agliano (Ret.) has extensive experience in resolving health care disputes among health care providers, health plans, hospitals and patients. He is particularly adept at handling such disputes because of the sensitivity and impact these important matters have on parties, whether they are claimants or respondents.
Justice Agliano’s attention to detail and specific interest in the field’s variety of claims and issues, affords him a high success rate in mediation and provides the parties with confidence in his arbitration awards. As arbitrator, judicial referee or judge pro tem, Justice Agliano relies on his experience, including that as Presiding Justice of the Sixth Appellate District to assist parties in resolving complex issues with individual attention and prompt issuance of carefully reasoned written decisions.
Representative Matters
- Administrative Hearings involving Physicians’ Hospital Staff Privileges (Termination/Discipline)
- Contract disputes involving: Inter-hospital agreement for patient care services; Hospital-Health Plan Reimbursement Agreements
- Individual health care Contracts/Plans and Coverage including: interpretation of agreements; calculation of amount of payments/reimbursements due; determination of pre-existing conditions; allegations of misrepresentation and failure to disclose prior medical condition of plan member
- Medical Malpractice claims including determinations of: applicable standard of care; informed consent; causation of harm; damages; and statute of limitations
