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Eye Drops Tainted With Bacteria Causing Serious Harm In The United States

March 18, 2023

Eye Drops Tainted With Bacteria: As of March 14, 2023, CDC, in partnership with state and local health departments, identified 68 patients in 16 states (CA, CO, CT, FL, IL, NC, NJ, NM, NY, NV, PA, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI) with VIM-GES-CRPA, a rare strain of extensively drug-resistant P. aeruginosa.&[...]

Contaminated Artificial Tears Causing Severe Bacterial Infections, Including Death

February 16, 2023

Contaminated Artificial Tears Causing Severe Bacterial Infections, Including Death: CDC is collaborating with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and state and local health departments to investigate a multistate outbreak of an extensively drug-resistant strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The out[...]

Former Pharmaceutical CEO Sent To Prison For Lying To FDA About Contaminated Products

February 11, 2023

Former Pharmaceutical CEO Sent To Prison: On August 31, 2022, a former owner and CEO of a Broward County drug manufacturing company who lied to the FDA and allowed contaminated products to make their way to pediatric hospitals was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison. Background Allegations Raid[...]

Federal Lawsuit Alleges Teva Pharmaceuticals Conspired To Block Access To Generic Drugs

February 9, 2023

Teva Pharmaceuticals Blocked Access To Generic Drugs: A federal lawsuit filed on December 2, 2022 in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas alleges, in part, as follows: “This case seeks to hold Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, Ltd., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Teva Pa[...]

How Pharmaceutical Companies Game The Patent System And Earn Billions At Patients’ Safety And Expense

January 31, 2023

How Pharmaceutical Companies Game The Patent System: The New York Times reported on how pharmaceutical companies legally abuse the patent system and hospital management software to earn billions from their patents that are expiring on their cash-cow drugs. By using lawsuits and settlement practices [...]

Florida Settles Opioid-Related Claims With Walmart

January 16, 2023

Florida Settles Opioid-Related Claims With Walmart: On October 20, 2022, Florida’s Attorney General announced a statewide agreement with Walmart to dispense naloxone to first responders across Florida. Walmart agreed to dispense 672,000 naloxone kits the state procured as part of an earlier ag[...]

$40M Talc Verdict In California Against Avon

December 19, 2022

$40M Talc Verdict: A California jury returned its verdict in favor of a woman who claimed that talc in Avon Products Inc. (“Avon”) cosmetics caused her to develop cancer (mesothelioma, which is caused by exposure to asbestos). The California jury awarded the woman $40 million in actual d[...]

Bayer Pays $40 Million To Resolve Alleged Use Of Kickbacks And False Statements Relating To Trasylol, Avelox, And Baycol

December 16, 2022

Bayer Pays $40 Million: Bayer Corporation, an Indiana corporation and manufacturer of pharmaceutical products, and its related entities, Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., Bayer HealthCare LLC and Bayer AG (collectively “Bayer”), have agreed to pay $40 million to resolve alleged violations o[...]

New Hampshire Reaches $40.5 Million Settlement With Johnson & Johnson To Settle Opioid Claims

December 13, 2022

New Hampshire Reaches $40.5 Million Settlement With Johnson & Johnson: The New Hampshire Attorney General announced on September 1, 2022 that a settlement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals/Johnson & Johnson was reached to settle the state’s opioid claims against the company. The company has[...]

Washington State Supreme Court Holds No Advertising Exception To Learned Intermediary Doctrine

November 23, 2022

Court Holds No Advertising Exception To Learned Intermediary Doctrine: The Supreme Court of the State of Washington (“Washington Supreme Court”) held in its opinion filed on June 2, 2022, “a drug manufacturer is protected under the learned intermediary doctrine even when they adver[...]

Serial FCA Whistleblower Scores $183M Jury Win Against Ely Lilly

October 30, 2022

According to a press release issued by the lawyers for whistleblower Ronald J. Streck (“Streck”), a former executive of a network of regional drug wholesalers, a jury ordered Eli Lilly and Company (“Eli Lilly”) to pay in excess of $61 million in damages, which will be tripled[...]

Biogen Agrees To Pay $900 Million To Settle False Claims Act Whistleblower Lawsuit

October 6, 2022

Biogen Agrees To Pay $900 Million To Settle Whistleblower Lawsuit: Biogen Inc. (“Biogen”), one of the world’s first global biotechnology companies, announced on July 20, 2022 that it had agreed to a $900 million settlement to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit filed in 2012 that accused i[...]

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