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Pfizer is standing firm on its allegations that Texas violated federal laws when it disclosed the company’s Medicaid rebate information to local lawmakers. The company is challenging the state’s argument that the disclosure was necessary and permissible. Read More
British Prime Minister Theresa May is working toward a deal with the UK’s life sciences industry to increase the sector’s productivity and maximize the country’s investment in research and development. Read More
Merck has agreed to pay Bristol Myers Squibb and Ono Pharmaceutical $625 million, plus royalties on global Keytruda sales, to resolve patent-infringement allegations involving an antibody designed to treat cancer by reactivating the body’s anti-tumor immune response. Read More
The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement with Endo to settle claims that the company blocked the market entry of Opana ER and Lidoderm generics, and then refiled a lawsuit against Allergan and its former subsidiary Watson Laboratories with identical charges. Read More
Mylan has not reached a settlement with the Justice Department to resolve allegations that it misclassified its allergy therapy the EpiPen for a Medicaid program, and as a result, underpaid state rebates, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid said. Read More
Mallinckrodt will pay $100 million to settle FTC charges that the company maintained a U.S. monopoly for the only approved adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) drug, Acthar, by acquiring the rights to a rival therapy, Synacthen. Read More
McKesson has agreed to pay a record civil penalty of $150 million to settle DEA and Justice Department allegations that the drug distributor failed to report suspicious orders of opioids. Read More
The high court will review Bristol-Myers Squibb’s appeal of a California Supreme Court ruling that grants the state’s courts jurisdiction to hear lawsuits filed by non-state residents. Read More
A majority of patent settlements reached last year in the European Union restricted the market entry of generics, according to a European Commission report. Read More
The Justice Department recovered $4.7 billion in False Claims Act settlements, with the largest recoveries coming from the life sciences industry at $1.2 billion in the last fiscal year. Read More