lawsuit<\/a> claims that the company violated the Washington Consumer Protection Act by intentionally failing to provide patients with accurate and valid COVID-19 test results.<\/p>\n“Defendants threatened the health and safety of the people of Washington and engaged in unfair or deceptive acts or practices in violation of the Consumer Protection Act, RCW 19.86, while operating COVID-19 testing sites throughout Washington without municipal business licenses to do so,” the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n
The company contributed to the spread of COVID-19 by providing faulty tests, Ferguson said.<\/p>\n
Center for COVID Control has billed the federal government $124 million for tests for uninsured patients. However, in many cases employees were instructed to mark patients as uninsured even if they were insured, according to the Attorney General’s Office.<\/p>\n
Several patients and employees made complaints about Center for COVID Control to the Attorney General’s Office concerning the company’s practices.<\/p>\n
Ferguson’s lawsuit asks the courts to make Center for COVID Control pay up to $12,500 per violation of the Consumer Protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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