Banning Lyon

Banning Lyon was born and raised in southern California. His involvement in a class action lawsuit in the early 1990s led to the publishing of an autobiographical op-ed piece in the New York Times in October 1993.

Banning Lyon co-founded the punk rock band Hagfish with both Doni and Zach Blair in 1991. Lyon drummed for the band for approximately two years, opening for bands such as ALL, Swervedriver, and Poster Children. He finally left the band after several break ups when tensions between members and line up changes left his relationship with the Blair brothers difficult.

Lyon went on to reunite with Jarrod King (guitar) and Jef King (vocals), with Damon Earnheart on bass, to form the skate punk band Cleaners, based in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. They recorded and released 'Walking on Eggshells' before ultimately splitting up in 1999.

Shortly after his finally leaving Hagfish in 1993 Mr. Lyon became involved in a class action suit against National Medical Enterprises (NME). NME is now known as Tenet Healthcare. The suit was led by Robert Andrews of the law firm Andrews and Clark located in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Mr. Lyon authored an autobiographical op-ed piece for the New York Times that was published on October 13, 1993. The article details his experience with having been hospitalized in Brookhaven Psychiatric Pavilion, a hospital owned by NME. Less than a week later, on October 18, Business Week published an article detailing Lyon’s story, going on to reveal further details regarding the Federal government’s involvement in an ongoing investigation of NME. That investigation led to what would become one of the largest health-care-fraud cases in American medical history.

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