Proposed Class Representatives Say Being On Waitlist Is An Injury

Mealey's (July 19, 2019, 11:34 AM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A proposed class of Florida residents who say the state’s secretary of health care administration and secretary of the department of elder affairs are in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by placing them on a waitlist for long-term home or community-based health care services argue in a July 17 supplemental brief for class certification that they have sustained an injury-in-fact as a result of the defendants’ conduct because their placement on the waitlist deprives them of services that could enable them to live independently (Benjamin Alexander, et al. v. Mary Mayhew, et al., No. 18-cv-00569, N.D. Fla.)....