Overview

Perah Rossler is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group of the firm. She has extensive experience in a wide range of commercial disputes spanning all aspects of healthcare law, torts, contracts, administrative law, class actions, family disputes and planning law. Perah also has vast experience in appearing before the entire range of lsraeli courts and tribunals.

Perah’s practice focuses on high-value complex commercial disputes and class actions.

In addition, Perah has considerable experience in the field of healthcare and, in particular, in representing leading HMO, Maccabi Healthcare Services, in various disputes as well as in providing ongoing counsel regarding current and ongoing health policies laid down by the Israel Ministry of Health. Her expertise in this field also includes defending, challenging and seeking to set aside regulatory, ministerial and governmental decisions affecting the healthcare sector before the full range of Israel’s administrative courts and tribunals.

Perah also has substantial experience in defending class action suits before the entire range of Israeli courts, in particular class action suits dealing with consumer protection and healthcare law-related issues. She advises on all stages involved in defending class action suits, including dismissals, opposing certification of class action claims, achieving favourable settlements and, in respect of those cases that reach court, vigorously defending the client’s rights and interests.

Perah also has broad experience in urban planning and construction law and, in particular, in representing public institutions, major corporations and private individuals in proceedings instituted against local, regional and national planning authorities.

Languages: EnglishHebrew
Admissions: Israel Bar, 2004
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LL.M., cum laude, (2005)Hebrew University of Jerusalem,LL.B., cum laude, (2003)

Experience

  • Representing and advising Maccabi Healthcare Services (“Maccabi”), one of Israel’s largest healthcare service providers, in a range of disputes with hospitals, health professions, patients and government agencies encompassing, inter alia, health policy issues, all matters concerning drugs and remedies, including regulatory aspects, the inclusion of drugs in the national health basket as well as in appeals before the Supreme Court. For example:
    • providing representation in several petitions submitted to the Supreme Court, challenging the legality of regulations governing the eligibility of non-residents who have permission to stay in Israel to receive healthcare services.
    • providing representation in a lawsuit seeking to set aside arbitral awards and judgments [rendered against Maccabi] in connection with a dispute between Maccabi and a former gynaecologist who provided health services on its behalf, including a claim in torts filed against Maccabi in excess of NIS 60 million. Within the ambit of the proceedings, the Supreme Court handed down a precedential ruling recognizing Maccabi’s inherent right, by unilaterally amending its by-laws, to revoke its right to appeal an arbitration award
  • Representing Maccabi in defending several class action suits concerning a broad array of fields, including: insurance, contract, torts and, of course, the unique field of healthcare services. The claims are estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars. For example:
    • providing representation in a class action dealing with the participation fees that are collected from its insureds for the biodegradable aspects of insulin pumps. In the hearing that was held in the matter, there was discussed the preliminary question as to whether Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) should be deemed as falling within the definition of an “authority” for the purpose of the Israel Class Actions Law.  The case is currently pending before the High Court of Justice, after the National Labour Court accepted Maccabi’s arguments and held  that it should be deemed an “authority” for the purpose of the Class Actions Law
    • providing representation in a class action dealing with the duty to proactively refund self-participation fees that are paid by insureds at the time of issuance of a letter of financial obligation (payment voucher—Form 17), in circumstances where the obligation was not ultimately realised.
    • providing representation in a class action dealing with the duration of treatment that is provided to insureds who purchase complementary medical treatments
    • providing representation in a class action dealing with the collection of self-participation fees for visits to doctors and when attending at clinics
  • Representing Booking.com B.V., a Dutch company which owns and operates the global leading and reputable travel website, Booking.com, in class actions filed against it with respect to alleged violations of Israeli law on the Booking.com website and mobile app. The claims raise various complex issues, such as service of pleadings on Booking.com outside the Israeli jurisdiction; the applicable law governing the claims; the appropriate forum; and diverse consumer matters. These include:
    • a claim concerning the contention that Booking.com does not include VAT in its pricing for accommodation in Israel, even though Israeli residents (but not tourists) are required to pay VAT
    • a claim concerning the contention that the terms for the cancellation of transactions on Booking.com do not comply with Israeli law
    • a claim concerning the contention that a certain hotel in Israel was published on the Booking.com website with a star rating that was not compliant with Israeli law
    • a claim concerning the contention that Booking.com does not inform its app users that they might be charged a foreign currency commission.
  • Representing Booking.com Transport Limited (the owner of Rentalcars.com) in several class action suits filed against it with respect to alleged violations of Israeli law on the Rentalcars.com website. The claims likewise raise various complex issues, including those pertaining to the service of pleadings on Booking.com Transport Limited outside the Israeli jurisdiction; the applicable law governing the claims; the appropriate forum; and diverse consumer matters.
  • Representing Agoda Company Pte. Ltd. in a class action suit, wherein damages are being claimed for alleged violations of Israeli law on the Agoda.com website.
  • Representing Bayit Balev Ltd., which operates a chain of retirement residences (including assisted living amenabilities) throughout the country, in a class action claiming that Bayit Balev allegedly misled some of its residents regarding the size of the allotted units.
  • Representing Israeli lawyers, who were appointed by the court as special managers to oversee a large land reserve in Tel Aviv, in a petition seeking to determine the fees to be paid to them for providing services related to managing and improving the land for many years. The land is [jointly] owned by the Israel Land Administration and approximately 300 private land owners.
  • Representing a high-net-worth individual in a multi-million dispute relating to family law and overseas property ownership. The dispute concerned an Israeli attorney who claimed to be the common-law husband of the high-net-worth individual and co-owner of her entire property

 

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