The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday overturned a Court of Appeals decision that found an insurance carrier was not liable for the cost of medications an injured worker had obtained from an out-of-state pharmacy after the insurance carrier had specifically instructed him to get his medications elsewhere.
Although the Supreme Court in June ruled that insurance carriers can decide where injured workers get their prescriptions filled, the court’s decision in Burgess v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans acknowledged that its clarification of this point didn’t resolv...
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