GEICO Secures Halt of Drug Screener’s Billing Arbitrations

GEICO won a ruling barring a medical laboratory from seeking new arbitrations over drug test reimbursements, after a federal judge raised doubts about the merits of such tests.

The insurance giant is suing Advanced Comprehensive Laboratory LLC, known as TopLab, for submitting more than $10 million in allegedly fraudulent billing claims for urine testing given to car accident victims.

GEICO’s allegations “raise a serious question going to the merits as to whether defendants were providing medically necessary drug screenings,” Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York wrote Tuesday in granting the ...