Memphis Injury Lawyer Blog

We all have to have health and prescription coverage. Right? Well corporate America sometimes preys on injured people and those who have suffered a Worker's Compensation injury. In Tennessee, an employer covered by the State of Tennessee Worker's Compensation Act must pay 100% of the reasonable and necessary costs of prescriptions that are needed due to a work connected accident. As the cost of health care skyrockets, it is little wonder that Memphis trial lawyers have to fight tooth and nail to get the medicines that their clients require.

McKesson Corporation has been a distributor of medications for over 150 years. Today, McKesson has agree to pay the staggering sum of nearly $500,000,000.00 in settlement of a RICO suit in the United States District Court in Boston, Massachusetts. The Carpenter's Union health fund brought a class action lawsuit claiming that McKesson artificially inflated prices on many of its drugs, such as Lipitor, without just cause.

In 2007, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, You and I spent $5,483,902,894.00 to fill prescriptions in Tennessee. Another way to look at it is that every Tennessean in 2007 filled on average 16 prescriptions. See the report here. One can only imagine how much of this cost is real and how much was artificially inflated by McKesson and perhaps others, as well.

Be on guard Tennessee. Your most precious asset is at potential risk: your ability to afford meaningful health care or, in other words, your present and future health.