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14 Nov. 2017
Uit: Courthouse News Service
Hier de gehele aanklacht:“The 2006 IDSA Guidelines actually ‘promote the idea that Lyme is a simple, rare illness that is easy to avoid, difficult to acquire, simple to diagnose, and easily treated and cured with 28 days of antibiotics,'” the lawsuit states. “Even though the IDSA guidelines are not rules or requirements, the insurance defendants treat them as ‘de facto’ law that must be followed by doctors and refuse to cover treatment beyond the IDSA guidelines.”
According to the lawsuit, the 2006 guidelines reference an article by Dr. Leonard Sigal, a defendant in the lawsuit, in which he claims “’Chronic Lyme disease’ is a common clinical diagnosis in some geographic areas and is based on thinking that is at odds with scientifically validated findings.”
Torrey says the insurers began working with Sigal to deny Lyme disease coverage in the 1990s.
Sigal testified in a 1996 deposition that the defendant insurers paid him $560 an hour to review Lyme disease files for them and that he almost always denied coverage, according to the complaint.
Torrey claims doctors who criticized the guidelines as too restrictive put their medical licenses at risk as they were targeted by the insurers.
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