CVS Corp., the second-largest U.S.
drugstore chain, agreed to pay as much as $250,000 to settle
allegations of violating federal and state disability-rights laws
in Massachusetts, state Attorney General Tom Reilly said.
CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in Massachusetts, will also
change its display and stocking practices and alter its personnel
policies, Reilly said in a faxed statement reported by Bloomberg.
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The judgment, filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court in
Boston, settles allegations that CVS repeatedly failed to keep
aisles clear for customers with disabilities. In April 2001, CVS
signed a two-year agreement to comply with disability-rights laws
by keeping aisles free of displays and other merchandise.
Investigators from Reilly’s office visited 27 Massachusetts
CVS stores and found “about 61 violations,” Corey Welford, a
spokesman for the attorney general, said.
Only five of the 27 stores reviewed by Reilly’s office were
in complete compliance with the 2001 terms, Welford said. Under
the consent judgment, which will be in effect three years and may
be extended up to five, CVS will pay $200,000 up front and as much
as $50,000 in additional fines for every future violation.
CVS spokesman Todd Andrews didn’t immediately return a voice
mail, Bloomberg said.
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