Maker of $1.5 Million Surgical Robot Hid More Than 700 Injury Claims, Insurer Says
- Intuitive Surgical coverup ‘most egregious’ ever, insurer says
- Device maker says companies knew of claims, took risk anyway
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It’s health insurers’ cardinal rule: disclose pre-existing conditions.
Now comes a case in which that familiar decree involves not a patient, but rather a $1.5 million surgical robot known as the da Vinci system.