Katrina Bookman Update

Katrina Bookman thought she won $43million in a New York casino - but ended up being offered nothing more than a steak dinner and $2.25 - is now suing the casino for the whole jackpot. You have to pity those poor slot machine players who have probably put thousands of dollars into the machines for years. Then one day, their luck finally comes a-calling and they hit the big prize, the jackpot. Millions of dollars. The excitement must be off the scale. But within minutes, you are told that though you think you might have won, in fact, you didn't. Oh.and here's a couple of. Please update your billing details here. Katrina Bookman posted a selfie online of the machine displaying the $42,949,672.76 jackpot. Boer Deng, Washington. Saturday June 17 2017.

While some people are lucky enough to win big at casinos, the hardest part can sometimes be collecting the winnings.

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Inside Edition's investigative team found people who thought they'd be taking home huge jackpots, only to discover that wasn't the case.

Katrina Bookman, 44, thought she hit a $42.9 million jackpot at Resorts World Casino in Queens, N.Y., in 2016. She even posed next to the winning machine as it displayed her earnings.
'I thought it was my lucky day,' she told Inside Edition.

Crowds started to surround Katrina to congratulate her, but soon security took her aside and she was eventually told that the machine had malfunctioned and there would be no payday.

'Anytime a machine hits a lot of money, you are going to claim it's broke,' Katrina said.

She hired a lawyer, Alan Ripka, to take the casino to court. The case is pending.

'When you walk through the door, you expect if you are risking your money, that if you win, you will be paid,' Ripka said.

Construction worker Jerry Rape, 55, and his wife, Kim, couldn't believe it when a slot machine said he'd won $1.3 million at the Wind Creek Casino in Montgomery, Ala., in 2011.

'I thought I was a millionaire,' he told Inside Edition. 'I thought it was my lucky day.'

But 24 hours after he thought he had 'won,' he was also told the 'machine malfunctioned.'

'Very devastating,' he said

He also hired an attorney, Matt Abbott.

'In this circumstance, the Creek Indian tribe was the judge, the jury and ultimate say so on whether they were going to pay a jackpot that [they] should have paid,' said Abbott.

Veronica Castilla was stunned when the machine showed she had won $8.5 million at the Lucky Eagle casino outside Seattle.

'I was excited; I couldn't believe it,' she said. 'I was in shock.'

She even took out her camera to snap pictures.

'I started to ask, 'Where's my prize?'' she recalled.

But just like the others, she was told the machine had malfunctioned.

'They took my money but didn't want to pay my winnings,' she claimed.

Washington is among a handful of states with its own casino lab, where gaming machines are regularly inspected.

'Nationwide, it's extremely rare to see a major machine malfunction, so consumers should feel confident that when they are sitting down at a gaming machine, it's going to function properly,' Heather Songer of the Washington State Gambling Commission told Inside Edition.

That's little solace for Katrina Bookman, Jerry Rape, and Veronica Castillo, who felt like they were millionaires — for at least a few minutes.

'I'm going to fight,' Castillo said. 'This is not over.'

The casinos say malfunctions are extremely rare and when errors occur, any payouts are void. In the cases of Bookman, Rape and Castillo, the jackpots actually exceeded what the machines could pay out.

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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

• 2021 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), Fellow
• 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

• 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

Veronica Castilla was stunned when the machine showed she had won $8.5 million at the Lucky Eagle casino outside Seattle.

'I was excited; I couldn't believe it,' she said. 'I was in shock.'

She even took out her camera to snap pictures.

'I started to ask, 'Where's my prize?'' she recalled.

But just like the others, she was told the machine had malfunctioned.

'They took my money but didn't want to pay my winnings,' she claimed.

Washington is among a handful of states with its own casino lab, where gaming machines are regularly inspected.

'Nationwide, it's extremely rare to see a major machine malfunction, so consumers should feel confident that when they are sitting down at a gaming machine, it's going to function properly,' Heather Songer of the Washington State Gambling Commission told Inside Edition.

That's little solace for Katrina Bookman, Jerry Rape, and Veronica Castillo, who felt like they were millionaires — for at least a few minutes.

'I'm going to fight,' Castillo said. 'This is not over.'

The casinos say malfunctions are extremely rare and when errors occur, any payouts are void. In the cases of Bookman, Rape and Castillo, the jackpots actually exceeded what the machines could pay out.

RELATED STORIES

These Hotel Bathrooms May Not Be As Clean As You Wish They Were: Investigation

Practices

Education

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

Woman Suing Casino

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 Silver edge casino no deposit bonus.

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

• 2021 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), Fellow
• 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

• 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

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Health Law Perspectives

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

Other Publications

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

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)

Heart of vegas free coins facebook. 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.)

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)