February 19, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge has largely refused to cull state law claims accusing numerous generic-drug makers of conspiring to fix prices, with only a handful of claims nixed from the massive multidistrict litigation on technical grounds.
February 01, 2019
A group of state attorneys general and others accusing generic-drug makers of conspiring to fix prices for their products told a Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday that the public importance of the litigation warranted their previously redacted complaint being unsealed in full.
January 04, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday denied a bid by generic-drug makers to win a court order that would limit what the state attorneys general accusing the companies of price fixing can say publicly about their investigation and the multidistrict litigation over the alleged conduct.
January 03, 2019
Defending their right to comment publicly on multidistrict litigation and ongoing probes into alleged price-fixing by generic-drug companies, dozens of state attorneys general have told a Pennsylvania federal judge that a speech limitation sought by the drug companies would be unnecessary and unconstitutional.
January 01, 2019
The life sciences industry will be keeping an eye on courtrooms around the country in 2019, watching to see how the U.S. Supreme Court decides a legal battle over patent protection for drugs and monitoring the fallout from federal prosecutors' decision to spike a False Claims Act case. Here are seven cases life sciences attorneys say they'll be following in the coming year.
December 19, 2018
Generic-drug companies facing multidistrict litigation and ongoing probes into alleged price-fixing are tired of hearing about them in the news, according to a brief filed in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday that argues state attorneys general offices have violated legal and ethical requirements to keep mum.
November 15, 2018
The New York and Connecticut attorneys general can keep sending subpoenas to drugmakers as part of their broader investigations into generic-drug price-fixing, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled, despite the drug companies’ concern the investigations were circumventing the discovery process for a sprawling multidistrict litigation.
November 05, 2018
Humana on Friday asked the Pennsylvania federal court overseeing the sprawling multidistrict litigation over generic drug prices to formally incorporate its action into the MDL, saying its claims target many of the same drugs that the group of states and proposed classes of drug buyers are targeting.
October 17, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal court has greenlighted the first round of multidistrict litigation accusing more than 20 generic-drug makers of conspiring to fix their prices, excusing only Teligent Inc. from the antitrust litigation.
September 26, 2018
McKesson Corp. earned billions of dollars by cooperating with an industrywide price-fixing conspiracy among generic-drug makers, according to a proposed class action Tuesday that appeared to be one of the first suits linking a drug distributor to multidistrict litigation over alleged drugmaker collusion.