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- $25.5 Millon Verdict Against Aetna in Bad Faith Insurance Case
Nov 18, 2018
Last week an Oklahoma jury returned a verdict against the health insurance company Aetna and in favor of a widower whose wife had lost her battle against cancer. After being diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer in 2014, Orrana Cunningham's doctors recommended that she receive proton beam therapy, a form of radiation therapy that would target the area of her stage 4 cancer near the brain stem. Aetna denied the coverage, and Mrs. Cunningham died from the...Read More - FDA Commissioner Issues Statement on E-Cigs
Nov 15, 2018
Today, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. issued a statement announcing new proposed FDA initiatives to combat what the agency considers to be an epidemic of underage use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), more commonly referred to as "e-cigarettes." E-cigarettes deliver vaporized nicotine from a liquid solution that contains a variety of carcinogens and other harmful toxins. In 2016, a report by the U.S. Surgeon General declared e-cigarette use by youth and young adults to...Read More