Bay Area's Intuitive Surgical Accused of Hiding More than 700 Injury Claims Involving Its Da Vinci Surgical Robot, Says Insurer

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.

Two insurance companies say da Vinci’s maker, Intuitive Surgical Inc., failed to reveal more than 700 injury claims when it applied for liability coverage. Intuitive says that’s nonsense.

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