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Class Action Settlement: Medical Management Group to Make Exams Accessible

03/30/2023
Donna Frawley has entered into a preliminary settlement agreement on a class action matter against defendant Medical Management Group of New York, Inc. (“MMG”), a scheduler of Independent Medical Exams (“IMEs”). Frawley’s lawsuit alleged that MMG scheduled people with disabilities for IMEs in doctors’ offices that are not accessible to them; scheduled people with disabilities for IMEs in doctors’ offices that have policies and procedures denying accommodations to people with disabilities; and, in scheduling IMEs, ignored known disabilities and requests for accommodation from people with disability; in violation of Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12180 et seq.;  New York State Human Rights Law, N.Y. Exec. Law§ 296 et seq.; and/or New York City Human Rights Law, N.Y.C. Admin Code § 8-107 et seq. MMG denied these allegations and any wrongdoing.
 
The Settlement Agreement commits MMG to engage in ongoing improvements to its policies and practices to ensure accessibility of the IMEs it schedules. Those changes are set forth in more detail in the Class Notice and the Parties’ Settlement Agreement, which is available on the Court docket on this case through the Court’s Public Access to Electronic Records (PACER) system at https://pacer.uscourts.gov, or by visiting the office of the Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Court holidays.
 
The Court has preliminarily approved the settlement and has scheduled an in-person hearing on July 6, 2023 at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 18A, 500 Pearl Street, New York, New York to decide whether the proposed settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate, and should be finally approved. Any class member wishing to object to the settlement agreement may do so before Thursday,  June  22,  2023 in accordance with the procedures described in the Class Notice available at the link above.