With the opioid epidemic declared a public health emergency, insurance companies are scrambling to figure out what to do next. However, in Florida, the state’s largest insurer has come up with its own answer. Florida Blue, in an effort to halt the growing opioid epidemic, recently announced it will no longer cover the common opioid …
While action star Chuck Norris has taken on numerous villains and other impossible situations on both the small and big screen over the years, his latest battle happens to be against the seemingly mundane world of medical device manufacturers. In a lawsuit recently filed in California, Norris alleges that a chemical that was injected into …
B. Braun, a medical device maker, is being sued in a class action lawsuit due to issues with its artificial knee replacements. The devices, which are coated with ceramic, were promoted to surgeons in spite of the company having knowledge that some of the Aesculap knee replacement devices could potentially fail, according to the lawsuit, …