Lyme class-action lawsuit filed by 28 Lyme patients

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[news] Insurers Accused of Conspiring to Deny Lyme Disease Coverage 
Wed Nov 15, 2017 1:11 pm (PST) .  
*Insurers Accused of Conspiring to Deny Lyme Disease Coverage *

By Cameron Langford, /Courthouse News Service/, Pasadena, California

November 14, 2017
https://www.courthousenews.com/insurers-accused-conspiring-deny-lyme-disease-coverage/

TEXARKANA, Texas (CN) – Twenty-eight people claim in a federal antitrust 
lawsuit that Lyme disease victims are being forced to pay hundreds of 
thousands of dollars for treatment because health insurers are denying 
coverage with bogus guidelines established by their paid consultants, 
who falsely say the disease can always be cured with a month of antibiotics.

Suffering from migraine headaches, an irregular heartbeat, hearing 
problems and nerve pain, lead plaintiff Lisa Torrey says in the lawsuit 
<http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LymeDisease.pdf> 
filed Friday in Texarkana, Texas federal court that she visited 36 
doctors, some of whom misdiagnosed her with multiple sclerosis and 
fibromyalgia and said her symptoms were all in her head, before she was 
properly diagnosed with Lyme disease.

*Full story*:
https://www.courthousenews.com/insurers-accused-conspiring-deny-lyme-disease-coverage/

*Contact /Court//h//ouse News Service/*:
csage@courthousenews.com <mailto:csage@courthousenews.com>

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