April 19, 2024
A California federal judge declined to toss a disability bias lawsuit brought by HIV or AIDS patients alleging CVS Pharmacy Inc. made their medication harder to get, saying federal regulations and even an internal company study warned that the program at issue was potentially problematic.
November 15, 2023
A group of HIV-positive patients urged a California federal court not to throw out their proposed class action accusing CVS Pharmacy Inc. of forcing them to receive medications through the mail, saying the company acted intentionally when it set up barriers to their health care.
July 28, 2023
Patients can revise their claims that CVS Pharmacy Inc. violated the Affordable Care Act by forcing people with HIV and AIDS to get medications by mail, a California federal judge said Friday, rejecting the company's argument that the case was no longer viable.
April 10, 2023
CVS urged a California federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing it of violating the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination provision by forcing people with HIV and AIDS to get medications by mail, saying the patients suing no longer receive prescriptions from the company's Caremark unit.
August 08, 2022
CVS Pharmacy can't avoid a proposed class action alleging its prescription drug benefits program discriminates against people with HIV and AIDS, as a California federal judge said the company's separate corporate entities can't shield it from federal health care law.
April 29, 2022
In the coming week, labor and employment attorneys should keep an eye on a Delta Air Lines case pitting California pay stub regulations against federal airline deregulation as it may soon come to an end. Here's a look at that case — plus other key labor and employment matters on deck in the Golden State.
December 13, 2018
A potential class of Amtrak, Lowe's Companies Inc. and Warner Media LLC employees with HIV and AIDS aren't being discriminated against just because their health plans will only cover medications from CVS Health Corp., a California federal judge ruled in dismissing the workers' suit against the companies.
August 24, 2018
A putative class of HIV and AIDS patients urged a California federal judge on Thursday to keep Warner Media LLC and Lowe's Companies Inc. in their lawsuit accusing the employers of forcing them to use CVS Pharmacy to pick up their medication without the benefit of a pharmacist, putting their privacy and health at risk.
August 13, 2018
Warner Media LLC urged a California federal judge to toss a suit over a program that requires HIV/AIDS patients to get their specialty medication only at a CVS pharmacy or by mail order, arguing that the patients couldn't sue for a benefit — the choice of pharmacy — that was not provided in the company's health plan.
May 15, 2018
CVS on Monday sought to exit a proposed class action alleging the health and privacy of HIV/AIDS patients are threatened by a program that requires them to get their specialty medication only at a CVS pharmacy or by mail order, telling a California federal judge the whole complaint was "defective."