Depending on who you ask, a workers’ compensation firm having an ownership stake in a pharmacy is either an ethical quagmire or a practical way for law firms to provide quick and inexpensive coverage to injured workers who might otherwise be left to suffer while their cases are litigated.
Law firms having ownership stakes in a business ancillary to their practices are nothing new, but a recent article by The Philadelphia Inquirer focusing on the practice of workers’ compensation firms owning pharmacies has sparked a lot of interest in the Philadelphia legal community.
