His parents have now filed a lawsuit against both the pharmacy benefits-management company and Walgreens, claiming they are responsible for their son's death. The Schmidtknechts' ...
This year, backers named the legislation “Cole’s Act” in memory of 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht, a college student who died last year from an asthma attack just days after he was forced to forego ...
Wisconsin legislators introduced a bill to combat what they call “predatory practices” from pharmacy benefit managers.
Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday to reform pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) practices by lowering drug costs and ...
The bill is called Cole’s Act, named in memory of Cole Schmidtknecht. His parents say their 22-year-old chose rent over ...
The parents of Cole Schmidtknecht, an Appleton man who died in January 2024 after suffering a severe asthma attack just days after his family says he stopped using his preventative inhaler due to ...
This Wisconsin couple is suing Walgreens, Optum Rx after their 22-year-old son died of asthma attack
In January 2024, 22-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht went to Walgreens to fill a prescription for an asthma inhaler. He was told the price of the inhaler had increased from $66 to $539 out-of-pocket, ...
The family of Cole Schmidtknecht accuse OptumRx and Walgreens of having a part in their son’s death. As we reported last month, the 22-year-old didn’t have an asthma inhaler when he suffered a ...
The lawsuit complaint, filed last month in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, seeks financial compensation for damages, including the suffering Cole Schmidtknecht ...
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