A better headline might read "I wrote a review on Yelp in which I accused a doctor of committing insurance fraud on other patients that I had no actual knowledge of, and it made my life a nightmare".
Courts have established that you can write negative reviews and that they fall well within rights to freedom of speech. She isn't being sued for giving the guy a one-star review and saying "This place sucks". There's one sentence she wrote that has cost her $20k:
"I suspect that this doctor gives unnecessary procedure to
a lot of people and then charges the insurance sky high
prices and no one knows the difference."
2014 review by one "Michelle L" of New York, NY. Starts with the exact same byline: "Very poor and crooked business practice.". Completely different practice. One with great reviews, for the most part.
Because it's not a word-for-word reposting. The details are different between the two. And she plastered it on multiple sites, similar to the claim regarding Dr Yoon's review.
I'm not saying it was or wasn't the doctor posting it. Just pointing out that if it was her who posted the dental review, she seems to have a similar story happen to her frequently. Which is suspect.
Yes that makes sense. It's probably not important for us to know "the truth" at this time. This seems like the sort of thing that our courts can sort out.
Because it's unlikely someone in the gynecologist's office traveled back in time to 2014 to when the Yellowpages.com review is stated as being written?
Where did they post them though? They didn't post them to Yelp, you can't do that. They didn't post them on their own website. Where would they have posted them?
Courts have established that you can write negative reviews and that they fall well within rights to freedom of speech. She isn't being sued for giving the guy a one-star review and saying "This place sucks". There's one sentence she wrote that has cost her $20k:
"I suspect that this doctor gives unnecessary procedure to a lot of people and then charges the insurance sky high prices and no one knows the difference."