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  1. April 25, 2024

    Class Counsel Seeks $31M From $93M Lipitor Settlement

    Attorneys representing a class of buyers in antitrust litigation against Pfizer over the cholesterol medication Lipitor have asked a New Jersey federal judge to approve their request for $31 million in fees after the two sides agreed to a $93 million settlement in February.

  2. February 14, 2024

    Pfizer Reaches $93M Deal With Lipitor Buyers In Antitrust MDL

    Pfizer Inc. has agreed to shell out $93 million to put to rest Lipitor buyers' claims in sprawling antitrust multidistrict litigation over the cholesterol medication that stretches back more than a decade, according to a motion filed Wednesday in New Jersey federal court.

  3. October 10, 2023

    Lipitor Hearing Punted As Ranbaxy Counsel 'Trapped' In Israel

    A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday agreed to postpone class certification hearings in antitrust multidistrict litigation over cholesterol medication Lipitor after Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. told the court an unidentified attorney is "currently trapped in the war zone in Israel with no foreseeable way to get out."

  4. December 06, 2022

    Lipitor Buyers Say Calif. Group Can't Move Claims Out Of NJ

    A group of consumers who allegedly overpaid for cholesterol medication Lipitor are pushing back against a faction of California consumers' attempts to transfer their claims from New Jersey to the Golden State, claiming that the remand would be detrimental to the multidistrict litigation.

  5. October 07, 2020

    Calif. Consumers Want 2nd Shot At Lipitor Antitrust Subclass

    Two California women asked a New Jersey court Tuesday to reconsider its ruling that they can't create a subclass of Golden State consumers in antitrust litigation against Pfizer Inc. and Ranbaxy Inc. over the cholesterol drug Lipitor, arguing that the judge's ruling last month was an error.

  6. September 22, 2020

    California Consumers Lose Bid For Subclass In Lipitor Case

    A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday shot down a bid from two California women to create a subclass of Golden State consumers in antitrust litigation against Pfizer Inc. and Ranbaxy Inc. over the cholesterol drug Lipitor, swatting away claims of a purported conflict of interest between them and other end-payors.

  7. August 21, 2020

    Berger Montague Drops Bankrupt Client In Lipitor Case

    Berger Montague agreed to drop its representation of Rochester Drug Cooperative Inc. in antitrust litigation over the cholesterol drug Lipitor, following another drug wholesaler's assertion that Rochester's recently filed bankruptcy creates potential conflicts in the long-running case.

  8. July 10, 2019

    Disciplinary Action Omission Prompts Atty Admission Redo

    The normally mundane process of admitting outside attorneys to participate in specific litigation in a jurisdiction to which they are not admitted got complicated for a prominent antitrust plaintiff's bar attorney who initially failed to report years-old disciplinary actions in his application to participate in a New Jersey case.

  9. August 22, 2018

    Pfizer Chips Away At State Claims In Lipitor Antitrust MDL

    A New Jersey federal judge has found that state antitrust claims against Pfizer Inc. and Ranbaxy Inc. tied to sales of the blockbuster cholesterol medication Lipitor aren't preempted by federal patent law, but that several antitrust and consumer protection claims can be cut on other grounds.

  10. May 15, 2018

    3rd Circ. Already OK'd Lipitor State Claims, Health Plans Say

    The Third Circuit has already cleared a group of health plans that paid for the blockbuster cholesterol medication Lipitor to bring antitrust litigation against Pfizer Inc. and Ranbaxy Inc. based on various state laws, so the drugmakers' bid to dismiss the claims is fruitless, the plans told a New Jersey federal court Monday.

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