By Tom Brown (Reuters) – Cigna Corp has been hit with a lawsuit claiming that the health insurer discriminates against peoplewith HIV/AIDS by forcing them to get some of their medications exclusively from its own mail-order pharmacy as part of a scheme to boost profits. The suit, filed on Monday in federal court in the […]
A proposed nationwide class action filed Monday in Florida federal court alleged Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. discriminates against AIDS and HIV patients by requiring them to obtain life-saving medications via mail, echoing similar lawsuits against other insurance companies in recent years. An anonymous class representative claimed Cigna routinely tells enrollees that specialty drugs […]
Dorleen Marcus, Daily Business Review A lawsuit filed against Cigna is the fourth attempt to force insurers to drop a mandatory mail-order drug program said to discriminate against people with HIV/AIDS. South Florida-based plaintiffs law firm Podhurst Orseck is co-counsel for the potential class action brought by Consumer Watchdog. The nonprofit consumer advocate teamed with […]
By KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press A consumer advocacy group has filed a class-action lawsuit against Cigna saying a new policy discriminates against people with HIV and AIDS and violates the federal health law by requiring them to get their medications from its mail-order pharmacy. Consumer Watchdog filed the lawsuit Monday in South Florida federal court. […]
August 2013 – A business owned by Miami nightclub owner Clive Seecomar has been saddled with a judgment of $60 million for actions related to a cellular telephone recycling business. The judgment is based on activities occurring in 2008 around the time that Seecomar was Miami’s man- of-the-hour after revitalizing the trendy Karu & Y […]
MELISSA MONTOYA, MMONTOYA@NEWS-PRESS.COM The mother of a Collier County teen who was injured in a car crash more than 10 years ago was rendered speechless when a jury awarded her $60 million in damages in court on Friday. Joan Antonuccio’s daughter, Angela Crowe, was paralyzed after a 2003 car crash in which she was a […]
By: Jacob Carpenter At the end of an emotionally taxing trial, during which she wept through testimony about her severely injured daughter, Joan Antonuccio couldn’t comprehend what just happened. A jury had awarded her $60 million. “It’s just like I heard it, but I was still so drained from crying,” said Antonuccio, a 54-year-old bartender […]
Bart Jansen, USA TODAY A British Airways plane’s collision with a drone while landing at Heathrow Airport has renewed calls for stricter regulation in the U.S., where more than 150 airliners reported close sightings of drones in the last 18 months, including eight in the last two weeks of January. “This is a real issue,” […]
A British Airways mid-air collision with a drone on Sunday has led to increased scrutiny over the regulations involved in piloting drones. In the United States alone, more than 150 planes have reported close sightings with drones in the last 18 months, with eight reports in the last two weeks of January alone. “There is […]
BY DEBORA LIMA TotalBank has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Century Bank and U.S. Century Bank CEO Luis de la Aguilera. The lawsuit alleges that de la Aguilera, who stepped down as CEO of TotalBank in December 2015 amid widescale layoffs, used confidential information he gained during his 15 years at TotalBank to poach TotalBank […]
