Lakeville Chiropractor Sued For Predatory LendingPublished: 2009-09-08 23:57:28Author: WCCO | August 12, 2009(WCCO) A chiropractor in the south metro is accused of aggressively enrolling
patients for a medical credit card and signing them up without their
knowledge.
On Wednesday, Minnesota's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Express Health and Cory Couillard of Lakeville.
"Some
patients first learned that a credit card had been opened in their name
and that these thousands of dollars of charges had been placed on their
credit card when they received a statement, a billing statement in the
mail," said Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson.
Lindsay
Westerkamp, 25, is a waitress. She met chiropractor Cory Couillard at a
kiosk at Burnsville Center. She never authorized charges and cried when
she received a credit card statement in the mail for a year's worth of
appointments. Her annual income was about $12,000.
"I cannot
afford a $3,000 a year medical expense. I can't do it. And those number
are right in front of him. He knows that, so he deliberately set me
up," said victim Lindsay Westerkamp.
That was not all. The
Attorney General said Couillard misrepresented Westerkamp's income as
$120,000 a year. Sanja Vosejpka had a similar situation, although she
made clear that she did not want a credit card. She got one anyway with
a $2,900 unauthorized charge for chiropractic care.
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