Trial begins for insurers in hepatitis C outbreak
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Lawyers are asking Nevada jury to hold the state's largest health management company responsible for sending two women to a Las Vegas outpatient medical clinic where they contracted incurable hepatitis C in 2005.
Attorney Robert Eglet opened a civil trial Wednesday in Clark County District Court alleging that Health Plan of Nevada disregarded evidence that former physician Dipak Desai was putting patients at risk at his endoscopy clinics.
Health Plan of Nevada attorneys argue that Desai is to blame, not them.
Plaintiffs Bonnie Brunson and Helen Meyer are in the courtroom for the trial stemming from what Eglet calls the largest hepatitis C outbreak in U.S. history.
Desai isn't there. He denies wrongdoing and faces trial later this year in on separate state and federal criminal charges.
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