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Since 1990, Pennsylvania state law has required pharmacies to give a 20 percent discount on any drugs sold to auto accident crash victims. Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert told the Associated Press in September 2004 that the law was created to indirectly lower the cost of auto insurance , but the inability for some drug store chains to afford the big discount led them to announce they would no longer sell medications to auto accident victims rather than comply with the law.
After Pappert told the Associated Press his office had been receiving complaints that CVS Corp. was not adequately informing customers about both the discount and its decision not to fill the auto accidents prescriptions, CVS agreed to post signs in its Pennsylvania pharmacies warning customers of its policy. CVS said its auto accidents prescription policy has been in place since 1993. Since many auto accident customers were unaware of the policy, the state has claimed people were filling their prescriptions at CVS at full price.
As a result, the company and the state''s Bureau of Consumer Protection filed a binding legal agreement September 14, 2004 requiring CVS to clearly post signs stating its auto accidents prescription policy. Of the 354 CVS stores in Pennsylvania, 341 have pharmacies.