LabCorp Must Defend Consumers’ Excessive Billing Claims

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings must defend claims it violated eight states’ consumer protection laws by charging excessive prices and coercing patients into paying those rates.

Fourteen patients adequately alleged the world’s largest clinical lab testing company charged them excessive prices for its services and then threatened to harm their credit ratings if they didn’t pay, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina said.

LabCorp’s billing practices violate laws prohibiting unfair or deceptive trade practices in North Carolina, Alabama, California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Texas, the plaintiffs said. The court dismissed the plaintiffs’ original ...