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Drug Manufacturers Will Be Required To Disclose Drug Prices In TV Advertisements

May 26, 2019

The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on May 8, 2019 a final rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that will require direct-to-consumer television advertisements for prescription pharmaceuticals covered by Medicare or Medicaid to incl[...]

Maryland’s Opioid Operational Command Center Reports Increase In Opioid-Related Deaths In 2018

May 21, 2019

The Maryland Opioid Operational Command Center issued its “Opioid Operational Command Center Annual Report January 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018” on May 9, 2019, stating, “We have found that the rate of increase in the overall number of opioid-related fatalities has slowed for two [...]

Pharmaceutical Company Agrees To Pay $360M To Settle Copays Kickback Scheme

December 21, 2018

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on December 6, 2018 that Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. (“Actelion”) has agreed to pay $360 million to resolve claims that it illegally used a nonprofit foundation as a conduit to pay the copays of thousands of Medicare patients taking Actelion[...]

Maryland Class Action Lawsuit Contends Pharmaceutical Company Unlawfully Barred Generic Version Of Its Drug

December 16, 2018

On November 20, 2018, a proposed federal class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland against Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Actelion Clinical Research, Inc., and Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. (“Actelion”) alleging that Actelion enga[...]

CDC Reports Drug Overdose Deaths Tripled From 2011 To 2016; Fentanyl Now Ranked Number One For Drug Overdose Deaths In U.S.

December 13, 2018

The CDC’s National Vital Statistics Report issued on December 12, 2018 entitled Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2011–2016 reported: “From 1999 through 2016, the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States more than tripled from [...]

Texas Doctor And Texas Pill Mill Owner Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison

October 6, 2018

A Texas physician and the owner of a Texas pain management clinic that federal prosecutors identified as a pill mill were sentenced on September 20, 2018 to 35 years (420 months) in prison for providing tens of thousands of unlawful prescriptions for millions of doses of opioids and other controlled[...]

Federal Appellate Court Overturns $3M Verdict Against Paxil Manufacturer For Suicide Death

September 17, 2018

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Federal Appellate Court”) overturned a $3 million Illinois state verdict against GlaxoSmithKline LLC (“GSK”), which marketed paroxetine under the Paxil brand name in the United States using the FDA‐approved label [...]

Report Finds Pharmaceutical Recalls And Medical Device Recalls Were Up In First Quarter 2018

July 10, 2018

The First Quarter 2018 “Recall Index” published by Stericycle Expert Solutions (“Stericylce,” which “provides global and local expertise before, during, and after a recall threat” and each quarter of the year analyzes cumulative recall data across five product cat[...]

$383.5M Federal Verdict Against GranuFlo Dialysis Provider DaVita

July 3, 2018

On June 27, 2018, a federal jury in Denver, Colorado returned its verdict in the amount of $383.5 million in favor of the families of three dialysis patients who suffered cardiac arrest and died after they received dialysis treatment at DaVita dialysis clinics using GranuFlo that the plaintiffs alle[...]

U.S. Accuses Insys Therapeutics Of Paying Kickbacks To Physicians To Prescribe Opioid Spray

June 2, 2018

The United States intervened in five lawsuits on April 13, 2018 that accuse Insys Therapeutics Inc. (“Insys”) of violating the False Claims Act in connection with the marketing of Subsys, a sublingual spray form of fentanyl (a powerful but highly addictive opioid painkiller), which was a[...]

Human Rights Watch Reports Too Many Nursing Home Residents Inappropriately Given Antipsychotic Medications

February 21, 2018

Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization established in 1978 that defends the rights of people worldwide and publishes more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries each year, published a report on February 5, 2018 entitled R[...]

Baltimore City Is Latest Jurisdiction To Sue Opioid Manufacturers And Distributors

February 11, 2018

On January 31, 2018, the City of Baltimore filed a 105-page lawsuit against manufacturers, distributors and others who are alleged to be responsible for numerous injuries and damages to Baltimore City caused by fraudulent and reckless marketing of opioids. Baltimore’s opioid lawsuit alleges th[...]

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