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Monthly Archives: October 2021
On September 22, 2021 U.S. District Judge William Alsup preliminarily approved settlements with Bausch Health Cos. Inc., Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Assertio Therapeutics Inc. worth $454 million.
On September 22, 2021, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreen, Kroger, Albertsons, and H.E.B. filed direct purchaser actions alleging an anticompetitive conspiracy to monopolize the market for combination antiretroviral therapy (“cART”) drugs used to treat HIV infection in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
On September 9, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts mostly denied a motion to dismiss a DOJ action alleging that Teva willfully violated the Anti-Kickback statute through copayment assistance donations that ended up exclusively subsidizing prescriptions for its multiple sclerosis drug, Copaxone. The court found that the government had alleged in sufficient detail a scheme by which Teva practically guaranteed that its own donations would result in the submission of Medicare claims for Copaxone.