Three Charlottesville residents are again pressing their claim that Sentara Health gouged local consumers with preposterous premiums, this time with a heavyweight legal team.

The new complaint, filed Sept. 23 in federal court, brings in Rick Mountcastle, the former prosecutor who successfully fought Purdue Pharma over OxyContin, the addictive painkiller blamed for decimating low-income communities across America, particularly in the rural South. Mountcastle joins forces with two firms that recently won a $1.6 billion verdict against a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary.

She was encouraged to take a rabies shot after an encounter with a bat. Now a Charlottesville woman faces a $30K bill.

”A mere glance at their track record tells you these firms take on successful cases against powerful corpor

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