April 07, 2025
Generic drug buyers vied Friday with the pharmaceutical companies they've accused of price-fixing over how to shape the first rounds of long-gestating Pennsylvania federal court litigation that the plaintiffs want heard in separate consecutive trials and that the drugmakers want combined.
March 07, 2025
The Pennsylvania federal court overseeing sprawling multidistrict litigation springing from claims that pharmaceutical giants worked together to hike the cost of off-brand drugs has certified several sets of classes for the cases for the MDL's latest bellwethers.
February 20, 2025
Swiss drugmaker Sandoz and its subsidiaries will pay consumers, insurers and other "end payer plaintiffs" $275 million to settle class action claims that it conspired with other companies to fix the price of certain generic drugs, under a deal that got preliminary approval from a Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday.
February 04, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge permanently tossed antitrust claims from indirect generic-drug resellers who alleged distributors like McKesson Corp. and AmerisourceBergen colluded with manufacturers to fix prices of many medications, writing Monday the plaintiffs fail to show the existence of such an agreement between drugmakers and distributors.
December 17, 2024
Swiss drugmaker Sandoz said Tuesday it has reached a $275 million settlement to end claims from consumers, insurers and others in the sprawling multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing in the generic-drug industry.
October 16, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal court has granted final approval to $44.4 million in settlements between drugmakers Apotex, Breckenridge and Heritage and direct purchasers in a multidistrict litigation over alleged price-fixing in the generic-drug industry.
September 24, 2024
A class of direct purchaser plaintiffs in the multidistrict antitrust litigation over generic drug pricing asked a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday to award them $97 million in fees across six settlements with pharmaceutical firms, arguing its attorneys "spent the better part of a decade and hundreds of thousands of hours litigating this case."
June 27, 2024
Heritage Pharmaceuticals has secured a Pennsylvania federal court's blessing on the second $10 million deal it has inked this year in hopes of extricating itself from multidistrict litigation accusing the generic-drug maker of working with others to hike up the cost of off-brand drugs.
May 16, 2024
A Pennsylvania federal judge gave preliminary approval to yet another settlement in the sweeping generic drug price-fixing multidistrict litigation, this time signing off on pharmaceutical company Apotex's $5.5 million settlement with clinics, hospitals and independent pharmacies.
April 02, 2024
Idaho's solicitor general had a hard day at the Ninth Circuit, where a panel tried and failed to get a lock on the state attorney general's stance on Idaho's abortion ban. Home Depot pressed the U.S. Supreme Court to review a $2.67 billion settlement in antitrust litigation against the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. And in Texas, a woman charged with murder for inducing her own abortion sued the prosecutors behind the case.