Arlan Cohen

Arlan Cohen

Arlan Cohen, M.D. graduated from Columbia College, summa cum laude. He attended Cornell Medical School, and as a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist, practiced medicine for more than 12 years before attending Harvard Law School from which he graduated magna cum laude in 1990. Since then he has practiced plaintiffs’ law in California, litigating HMO malpractice, wrongful death, and personal injury lawsuits in which the issues of health impairment, its extent and cause are central to the case.

Articles written by this author:

Medical-malpractice: The effective arbitration brief

A look at “neutral” arbitrators and the arbitration brief that enables the neutral to do the right thing

Arlan Cohen

2015 November


It seemed like a good idea at the time

How Kaiser Permanente captured 40% of insured Californians in a medical-malpractice judicial system profoundly tilted against injured patients

Arlan Cohen

2023 November


On the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Kaiser arbitration system

On the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Kaiser arbitration system

Substantive unconscionability exists where the rules determining the outcome are stacked

Arlan Cohen

2026 August