Consolidated order ruling on three of Tufano's Motions to Transfer Venue at once, all filed 2026-04-14 and each seeking transfer to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania: case nos. 2025-CV-3928 (C008), 2025-CV-6513 (C020), and 2025-CV-9609 (this case). The order finds the motions "do not reflect proper service on any of the defendants" and that the court found "no mechanism by which a plaintiff may accomplish such a 'transfer.'" All three motions were DENIED.
April 21, 2026 ruling source — ic-access.com ↗Tufano v. United Healthcare
2025-09609 · Lackawanna County
About this case
Evidentiary treatment: This summarizes the plaintiff's own allegations as stated in the complaint or docket record cited below. It reflects what was filed, not a court finding, and is not a determination that the allegations are true.
Plaintiff alleges he underwent medically necessary orbital reconstruction surgery on May 8, 2025, incurring $41,286.36 in medical bills and hospital costs. He alleges he had an active United Healthcare policy, followed all required procedures to request coverage, and that United Healthcare refused to compensate him despite the active policy — alleging the sole purpose of maintaining the coverage was to be insured for this specific out-of-state service. Exact causes of action and prayer for relief are on later pages not reached this session.
Defendants
Source record
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Outcome and research status
Research status: Source-backed (direct LPA portal docket + case detail)
Research notes: Confirmed by direct review of pp.1-2 of the 4-page Verified Complaint. Alleges United Healthcare denied coverage for a medically necessary Orbital Reconstruction surgery (2025-05-08, $41,286.36 in costs) despite an active policy. A Consolidated Order dated 2026-04-21 (James A. Gibbons, P.J.) denied Tufano's Motion to Transfer Venue in this case alongside two others (C020/2025-CV-6513 and 2025-CV-3928); recorded separately as a court finding. The case remains open -- a Request for Order to Show Cause was filed 2026-06-16, after the order.
Related litigation
- Dispute group: United Healthcare litigation
Court & ruling records
Findings recorded only where they are tied to an order, opinion or report and recommendation.
Record labels distinguish final orders/opinions, reports and recommendations, non-final orders, and tentative/indexed ruling records.
Chronology events
Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
The same Consolidated Order denied C024's Motion to Transfer Venue alongside C008's and C020's.
Source — ic-access.com ↗Pennsylvania cross-forum relationships
Later federal action is again Tufano v. United Healthcare.
Federal source — dockets.justia.com ↗Public video statements
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you know I had New York health insurance that was completely covered we'll again we'll sort out the situation still hasn't sorted been sorted out yet but
A second, independent restatement — at a different point in the video — of the posture stated at 5:55, so the finding does not rest on one sentence. It also records that the corrective surgeries were covered by New York health insurance — a damages-allocation fact that bears on the Taban eye-surgery dispute and that no tracked record currently carries.
Watch at 08:31 — youtube.com ↗So, I just got back from my orbital reconstruction surgery, which is the fifth procedure I've had in attempts to correct my eyes and vision.
Published the same day as the surgery date pleaded in C024's verified complaint (2025-05-08), and it supplies a procedure count — the fifth — for the corrective sequence that is the damages spine of the eye-surgery malpractice thread and the subject of the United Healthcare coverage denial.
Watch / source — youtube.com ↗uh because we were supposed to only do one eye at a time, but he did end up doing both eyes at the same time.
Establishes that the May 2025 procedure was bilateral. This matters far beyond the clinical detail: two already-archived files describe a "double orbital reconstruction" dated to roughly mid-November 2025, and bilaterality was the shared feature most likely to cause the two events to be collapsed into one. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
Watch at 00:29 — youtube.com ↗Um cuz like everything out here I had to pay for this surgery was like $40,000
C024's claims summary pleads that this orbital reconstruction cost $41,286.36 and that United Healthcare refused to cover it. This is the contemporaneous, first-person statement of the same figure, four days after the operation and 205 days before the case was filed. No insurer, court or filing is mentioned.
Watch at 01:43 — youtube.com ↗right now we're like out here in California. It's been like 3 days since the surgery and I'm just like really really dizzy and nauseous when I stand up or try to do anything.
Fixes the recording to three days post-operation and the venue to California. C024 pleads the surgery date as 2025-05-08 and describes the treatment as an "out-of-state service"; both are corroborated here from the speaker's own account.
Watch at 02:03 — youtube.com ↗got to pay I had to pay you know almost 30 over $30,000 for the surgery which is why I did the fundraiser which is why I'm like asking you guys for help and trying to to get some more sales on my business because I need to pay off my credit card. So it was very very expensive. And then on top of that 30,000 you know my stay over here my food my accommodations and everything are probably going to be around $10,000.
A contemporaneous, first-person cost figure for the orbital reconstruction, given nine days after the operation. It bears directly on the damages a later case pleads.
Watch at 06:42 — youtube.com ↗So, that's probably going to be another lawsuit. I think we're going to sue Alibaba for facilitating the trade between me and this like Chinese equipment scammer who shouldn't even be on the platform if none of his machinery works.
He names the defendant and states the legal theory of a case that did not yet exist. C016 Tufano v. Alibaba (Lackawanna County 2025-05632) was filed 2025-07-25 — thirty-one days after publication — against Alibaba; Alibaba Group USA Inc; Zhucheng Kangze Machinery Co, and its outcome_reason field describes Zhucheng Kangze as "the actual seller of the equipment." The theory he states — that Alibaba is liable for facilitating the trade with a seller who should not be on the platform — is a platform-facilitation theory, and C016's claims summary pleads fraudulent misrepresentation over a potato-chip manufacturing line "purchased… through Alibaba from Zhucheng Kangze Machinery Co." Moderate rather than Strong: Threatened or prospective filing is not one of the three core factors, so Strong is unavailable however good the case match is.
Watch at 03:04 — youtube.com ↗I feel like my eyes kind of look the same, dude. If not a very It's like when we had the reconstruction in May they looked maybe 20% better and then this guy did the reconstruction. They look what? Maybe 10% better?
C024, Tufano v. United Healthcare (Lackawanna 2025-09609, the United Healthcare dispute), pleads that United Healthcare denied coverage for a medically necessary orbital reconstruction surgery on 2025-05-08, with $41,286.36 in costs. This is the speaker, seven months later, calling that procedure "the reconstruction in May" and rating its result at "maybe 20% better" — a first-person account of the outcome of the exact surgery the case is about. He does not mention the insurer, the denial, the cost or the case. The value is corroborative, not evidentiary as to the insurance claim.
Watch at 02:04:55 — youtube.com ↗So, I have to go back home all those insurance claims. I still haven't got paid for my car. I have the roof unca- the roof, dude. [ __ ] might not have a roof for 4 months. Started [ __ ] We couldn't get the roof finished with I should I might have Honestly, I shouldn't have got the surgery now. I should have waited till December. I had I should have stayed home and finished my roof. Cuz now there's no roof on my house. [ __ ] insurance company dropped me. I don't have insurance on my house. God forbid something happens. So, I'm just trying to get some emergency insurance coverage right now.
a pre-filing statement of the grievances behind three Lackawanna cases filed 9 to 25 days after this video was published, made without naming a single insurer, court or intention to sue — - "I still haven't got paid for my car" → C025 Tufano v. State Farm (2025-10242, filed 2025-12-19, i.e. 25 days after publication), whose Verified Complaint pleads a 2025-10-15 auto accident and a State Farm vehicle-valuation dispute — and a separate home-insurance claim; - "insurance company dropped me. I don't have insurance on my house" + the unfinished roof → C023 Tufano v. City of Scranton (2025-09608, filed 2025-12-03, 9 days after publication), which alleges roofing/gutter contractor negligence across two properties and a subsequent denial of two insurance claims by Erie Insurance; - "all those insurance claims", plural → also open at this moment is the coverage denial pleaded in C024 Tufano v. United Healthcare (filed 2025-12-03).
Watch at 02:10:54 — youtube.com ↗And this is because we had a strabismas surgery to try to fix my crossey. So I was really crosseyed after that doctor botched me and they turned my eyes out. What they should have done was add medial support which they did now but now my eyes are pointing out because of that strabismas surgery they did.
A dated allegation of surgical harm, that a doctor botched him and that a strabismus procedure left his eyes turned out and now has to be undone. No doctor, clinic, hospital, insurer, court or case is named; the dataset link runs through the phrase orbital reconstruction surgery used in C024.
Why this classification: Moderate because it documents the medical narrative underlying a tracked dispute rather than any litigation step, and the case link is inferred from shared subject matter alone, with nothing in the video naming a party or a proceeding.
Watch at 00:12 — youtube.com ↗Related video research
Each video has its own research page with its verified publish date, timestamped statements and case links. A researched link between a video and a docket record is not a finding of causation in either direction.
- 1 Month Double Orbital Reconstruction UpdateWatch on YouTube — youtube.com ↗
- Japan Vlog #2Watch on YouTube — youtube.com ↗
- Pastured Goose! Bone Broth GUMMY BEARS!? Prepared Meals! Pot Pies! Free Range Meat Vlog!Watch on YouTube — youtube.com ↗
- 🐸 ORBITAL RECONSTRUCTION ONE WEEK UPDATE - Medial Orbital Decompression ReversalWatch on YouTube — youtube.com ↗
- I got Orbital ReconstructionWatch on YouTube — youtube.com ↗
- Orbital Reconstructions after BOTCHED SURGERYWatch on YouTube — youtube.com ↗
- EYEBALLS UPDATE! 3rd Eye Surgery!?!?Watch on YouTube — youtube.com ↗
Cite this page
Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. United Healthcare (2025-09609)". Research last verified September 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/2025-09609-tufano-v-united-healthcare/