Banning Lyon

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Banning Lyon was a plaintiff in a 1990s class action lawsuit against National Medical Enterprises, now Tenet Healthcare. His involvement in the lawsuit led to the publication of an autobiographical op-ed in The New York Times in October, 1993. Mr. Lyon was born and raised in Southern California and was a founding member of the Hagfish punk Rock band.

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Music

Banning Lyon co-founded the punk rock band Hagfish with Doni and Zach Blair in 1991. Mr. Lyon drummed for the band for approximately two years, opening for bands such as ALL, Swervedriver, and Poster Children. He finally left the band after several disagreements with the Blair brothers. [1]

Mr. Lyon went on to reunite with high school friends Jarrod King (guitar) and Jef King (vocals), with Damon Earnheart on bass, to form the skate punk band Cleaners, based in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. They recorded and released Walking on Eggshells before ultimately splitting up in 1999. [2]

Juvenile Mental Healthcare

Shortly after his leaving Hagfish in 1993, Mr. Lyon became involved in a class action suit against National Medical Enterprises (NME), now known as Tenet Healthcare. The suit was led by Robert Andrews of the law firm Andrews and Clarke located in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Mr. Lyon authored an autobiographical op-ed for The New York Times that was published on October 13, 1993. [3] The article details his having been hospitalized in a hospital owned by NME. Less than a week later, on October 18, Business Week published an article detailing Mr. Lyon's story, going on to further detail the Federal government's involvement in an ongoing investigation of NME. That investigation led to what would become one of the largest health-care-fraud cases in American medical history. [4]

Shortly after the publishing of the articles, National Medical Enterprises agreed to settle out of court. In June 1994, Peter Alexis and NME pleaded guilty to federal criminal and civil charges that included paying kickbacks to doctors in return for patient referrals. The chain paid a $379 million fine. At the time it was the largest fine levied for health care fraud. [5] [6]

In February 1995, the doctors that had been defendants in the class action suit in which Mr. Lyon had been involved sued Lyon, his attorney Robert Andrews, and others. The doctors claimed that Mr. Lyon and the others had defamed them, citing Mr. Lyon's statements previously made in the Dallas Morning News and Business Week. [7] The case was ultimately dropped by the doctors.

In 2024, his autobiography A Chair in the Valley about his experience with juvenile mental health care was published. [8]

Outdoors

Mr. Lyon now[ when? ] lives in northern California and works as a backpacking guide in Yosemite National Park. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Hagfish". last.fm. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "DrIndustrial". DrIndustrial. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  3. ↑ Lyon, Banning (3 October 1993). "You're Sane When The Insurance Money Runs Out". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  4. ↑ Yang, Catherine (28 October 1993). "Put the Head in the Bed and Keep it There". Business Week. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Nobel, Holcomb (24 February 1995). "10 Texas Psychiatrists Sue Ex-Patients Over Fraud Accusations". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  6. ↑ Myerson, Allen R. (1994-06-29). "Hospital Chain Sets Guilty Plea". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  7. ↑ Olmos, David (26 October 1994). "Doctors Linked to NME Sue Ex-Patients : Courts: Dallas psychiatrists who worked at National Medical's most notorious hospital are charging defamation, slander and libel". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
  8. ↑ Petrow, Steven (1 June 2024). ""Two Open Field Authors Talk Mental Health and Trauma—and the Power of Nature to Heal"". "Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper". Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  9. ↑ Lyon, Banning (31 January 2023). "When I was 15, a psychiatric hospital nearly ruined my life. This advice saved me". Washington Post. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
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