Groom principal Kara Petteway Wheatley was featured by NAPA Net The Magazine in the article, “Preventive Medicine: Five Health Plan Lawsuit Risk-Mitigation Steps,” where she commented on the growing trend in litigation over prescription drug costs.
According to NAPA Net The Magazine, Wheatley said that she “isn’t surprised that the plaintiffs’ bar has latched on to prescription drug costs as an early focus.”
The publication added that she said that “the plaintiffs’ bar has picked up on that and is trying to leverage it in these cases.”
NAPA Net The Magazine wrote that Wheatley added that “these cases are the first in a wave of similar litigation that Groom Law Group thinks will be filed against employers.”
According to the platform, Wheatley said that “the plaintiffs need to identify a particular injury they experienced as a result of the prescription drug cost. It’s not enough to just claim, ‘I paid too much for my prescription drugs…’ Plaintiffs will need to specifically identify how they were injured and how that harm relates directly to the plan fiduciaries’ conduct.”
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