Employer's Right to Control Choice of Pharmacy Doesn't Allow Self-Designation

Although injured workers in Louisiana do not have the right to get their medications from the pharmacy of their choice, the Court of Appeal last week ruled that an employer cannot turn the restriction into a license for self-dealing. Allowing a retailer to compel a worker to fill prescriptions at the employer’s own pharmacy poses an impermissible conflict of interest, the court said in its decision for Soileau v. Wal-Mart Stores. Elizabeth Soileau had suffered injuries in the course of her employment with Wal-Mart in 2008. Her doctors prescribed her hydrocodone, Lyrica, ...