MIAMI—The Daily Business Review reported on Rivero Mestre’s $126 million-dollar settlement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Inc., which has agreed to cover a life-saving treatment for hepatitis C to approximately 2,000 people.
In May 2015, Rivero Mestre filed two class actions against Florida Blue on behalf of people with employer-sponsored plans and non-employer sponsored plans. The lawsuits alleged that Florida Blue was unlawfully rationing a cure by imposing certain coverage requirements on people suffering from hepatitis C, whose livers had not yet developed advanced or severe stages of liver fibrosis. A year later, Rivero Mestre obtained a landmark settlement under which Florida Blue has agreed to remove the contested coverage requirements, paving the way for at least 2,000 people suffering from hepatitis C to now receive a cure to a previously incurable, potentially life-threating disease. The settlement provides at least $126 million dollars’ worth of relief to the settlement class and has far-reaching implications for people suffering from hepatitis C all across the United States.
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