NRL: Jarryd Hayne s ex-teammates slammed for appalling response to sentence
6 May, 2021 10:00 PM
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Former NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne jailed for five years and nine months for sexual assault. Video / ABC News
Former NRL superstar Jarryd Hayne jailed for five years and nine months for sexual assault. Video / ABC News
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A pair of Jarryd Hayne s former NRL teammates have come under fire for their appalling response to the 33-year-old s sentencing on Thursday.
The ex-superstar of Australian sport will be jailed for at least three years and eight months without parole for sexually assaulting a woman in her Newcastle home in 2018. He was given a maximum sentence of five years and nine months.
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Man hit with almost $90,000 bill after serious car accident despite having insurance
When Mark Gottlieb was hit by another car while driving in January of 2019, he damaged four vertebrae and smashed several teeth. A car basically came out of nowhere. I thought I was going to die, he told, CBS This Morning.
His Geico Car Insurance plan covered $250,000 of medical care. After physical therapy and other treatments that Geico covered, Gottlieb needed spinal surgery. He didn t pre-clear the surgery with his medical insurer, Aetna, because he thought he would be covered by the money left in his Geico plan. But the hospital and surgeon s bills totaled over $700,000.
After accident, patient crashes into $700,000 bill for spine surgery
Mark Gottlieb s life changed in an instant when another driver crashed into his car, damaging four vertebrae in his upper spine and smashing six teeth.
In the months following that January 2019 crash, Gottlieb got the teeth crowned and, for debilitating neck pain, tried injections, chiropractic care and physical therapy. The treatments were all covered by his car insurance.
New Jersey law, as in 12 other states, requires drivers to buy personal injury protection, or PIP, coverage to pay medical expenses. Gottlieb had the maximum: $250,000.
Unfortunately, Gottlieb s pain persisted. Nothing was working. The only other thing was surgery, he said.
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A car accident in 2019 smashed six of Mark Gottlieb s teeth and severely damaged four vertebrae. The spinal surgery he needed as a result led to medical bills that exhausted the personal injury coverage in his auto insurance. Erica Seryhm Lee for KHN
Mark Gottlieb s life changed in an instant when another driver crashed into his car at an intersection in Hackensack, N.J., damaging four vertebrae in his upper spine and smashing six teeth.
In the months following that January 2019 crash, Gottlieb got the teeth crowned and, for debilitating neck pain, tried injections, chiropractic care and physical therapy. The treatments were all covered by his car insurance.
Generous personal injury coverage on your auto insurance policy may not be enough to cover your medical bills. Patients can get financially blindsided when car and health insurance policies differ.