3rd Circuit Decisions May Be Start of Trend for Controlling Pharma Costs

Industry observers and defense attorneys say they are hopeful that Louisiana's 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals is keeping the state in tune with a national movement across the country aimed at managing the way that workers obtain medications. The appellate court ruled on Oct. 1 that an injured worker's employer had the ability to select which pharmacy he used to fill his prescriptions, and that the employer wasn't liable for the full cost of the medications he had gotten from a mail-order service.  This decision in Bordelon v. Lafayette Consolidated Government comes o...