Drugmaker, Woman Square Off On ACA’s Impact On Mirena Class Action

(February 29, 2024, 10:56 AM EST) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that insurers cover contraceptive drugs at no out-of-pocket cost, so a woman’s lawyers should have known that she couldn’t have suffered an economic injury sufficient for standing to pursue her claims that she wouldn’t have paid for the drug had she known about its cancer risks, the manufacturer says in seeking sanctions and opposing her motion to amend.  But in reply, the woman says all the evidence in the case suggests that she does have an injury and that adding named plaintiffs who can more readily produce evidence of their own injury won’t prejudice the company....