John Oliver filed a lawsuit to health care official, he called on “last week tonight”

John Oliver faces a new claim.

The comedian sues Dr. Brian Morley, a doctor and a health care officer who claims that he was recorded in an episode of 2024 Last week tonight This criticized his former Amerihealth Caritas employer.

Morley’s complaint, which was filed in the New -York Southern District Court on Friday and was revised Entertainment weeklyHe argues that Oliver and his team “completely cut out the context and manipulated Dr. Morley’s two things” during administrative proceedings, so they could “make their defamation”.

Morley, who worked at the Amerihealth Caritas as a medical director who has reviewed Medicaid requests, requires $ 75,000, plus special and punitive losses, and requires that allegedly deflected statements were made from circulation.

John Oliver’s representatives and Last week tonight did not immediately respond to EW queries about the comment. Morley’s lawyer gave up comments. The HBO representative also gave up comment.

In the complaint, the lawyers of Morley call Last week tonightThe episode of Medicaid since April 2024, arguing that the owner expressed “false accusations” about the doctor who was “designed to cause indignation” and claimed that Oliver “suppresses indignation”, which was “made for ratings and profits through the reputation of Dr. Morle.”

The moment in question came when Oliver discussed patients with disabilities who refused care for managed care organizations that carry out Medicaid in Iowa, in particular, focusing on care and cleanliness of fixed patients after moving the intestine.

The episode played a clip about Morley’s testimony at the Amerihealth 2017 administrative hearing, where the plaintiff can be heard: “People have bowel movements every day, where they do not completely clean themselves and we have not fussed (they are too much. People are allowed to be dirty …

Then Oliver said, “Look, I will be honest when I first heard it, I thought,” It should be removed from the context. There is no way of a doctor, a licensed doctor, or indicates that we have received full hearing. I won’t play for you.

Shortly afterwards, Oliver directly turned to Moil, shouting: “If I absolutely had to introduce it into the word I would think f would say f — the doctor with a rusty canoe. I hope he gets the tetanus of the balls. And if he has a problem with my language, I would say that I would let me be dirty.

Morley’s complaint claims that Last week tonight The team “directly claimed that they did not derive Dr. Morley’s testimony outside the context, knowing that they deliberately manipulated the context and their broadcasting for the transfer of slander that they knew it was not true.”

The document states that Morley “did not testify that he” well “or medical fit for someone to sit or lie in his own feces all day or otherwise,” claiming that it Last week tonight He made erroneous parallels between the “hypothetical” patient, which Morley discussed during his testimony and Louis, a patient with disabilities who were denied home bathing and changing the diapers he needed.

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The Complaint Claims that Morley’s Full, Urded Quote Durying The Testimony Said, “In Certain Cases, Yes, with The Patient with Significant Comorbidits BUT LIKE I SAID, PEOPLE BOWEL MOVEments every day whohre they don’t complely clean themselves and we don’t fuss over too Much. Interfere with, you Know, Medical Safety, like someone who has concomitant related diseases that you worry, but not in this particular case.

Lawyers also claim that Morley demanded that the statements referred were introduced in October and what Last week tonight The team refused to do so in November.