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Legal claims against the pharmaceutical industry have varied widely over the past two decades, including Medicare and Medicaid fraud, off-label promotion, and inadequate manufacturing practices. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] With respect to off-label promotion, specifically, a federal court recognized off-label promotion as a violation of the False Claims Act ...
The FTC sued UnitedHealth Group's Optum unit, CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts for allegedly steering diabetes patients towards higher priced insulin.
The following is a list of the 21 largest civil settlements, reached between the United States Department of Justice and pharmaceutical companies from 2001 to 2017, ordered by the size of the total civil settlement. Some of these matters also resolved criminal fines and penalties, listed in parentheses, but these amounts are not considered when ...
Pharmaceutical fraud is when pharmaceutical companies engage in illegal, fraudulent activities to the detriment of patients and/or insurers. Examples include counterfeit drugs that do not contain the active ingredient, false claims in packaging and marketing, suppression of negative information regarding the efficacy or safety of the drug, and violating pricing regulations.
More than 9,000 lawsuits were filed against pharmaceutical company American Home Products after its combined diet drug fen-phen was linked to potentially fatal heart valve damage in 1997 ...
The pharmaceutical company, which has a plant in Durham, said it will “vigorously defend” against the nearly 200 cases. Patients file lawsuits in Charlotte court alleging issues caused by ...
On December 9, 2016, pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle claims with forty-three state attorneys general concerning the alleged off-label promotion of its schizophrenia drug Abilify. [50] The lawsuit alleged the company promoted the drug for use in pediatric populations and to treat dementia and ...
A separate lawsuit was filed in February against the hospital and Schofield alleging that Schofield replaced a 65-year-old patient’s fentanyl IV with tap water, leading to his death, according ...