Judges Dismiss One Compound Cream Case by Liberty Mutual, and One Case Against It

A state court in Philadelphia dismissed a lawsuit by Liberty Mutual Insurance and its affiliates alleging more than three dozen Pennsylvania pharmacies had engaged in fraud and overbilling by selling expensive compounded creams to injured workers. A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Friday also dismissed a lawsuit by a compounding pharmacy that argued Liberty Mutual had violated the workers' compensation statute by refusing to fill those same types of prescriptions. The lead attorney in one of the cases said that the simultaneous rulings suggest that judges feel that the festering issue o...