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Generic Drugs Antitrust Investigations

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

DOJ pursues antitrust violations in pharmaceutical industry

Compliance Today (November 2020) - An ongoing U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into price-fixing, bid-rigging, and other antitrust behavior in the pharmaceutical industry has resulted in seven companies...more

Smart & Biggar

Proposed class action alleges generic manufacturers conspired to price-fix and allocate generic market

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On June 3, 2020, a proposed class action was commenced against over 50 generic drug manufacturers... The claim alleges that the generic drug manufacturers violated the Competition Act by conspiring to allocate the market, fix...more

A&O Shearman

Northern District Of California Allows Securities Class Action Based On Alleged Price-Fixing To Proceed Against Pharmaceutical...

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On October 29, 2019, Judge Charles R. Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss a putative securities class action brought against a pharmaceutical...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Cartel Snapshot - February 2019

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Q4 Update: Overview of Cartel Investigations - Although 2018 saw guilty pleas and new indictments in several ongoing Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations, the year finished by continuing a downward trend in antitrust...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Price-fixing scandal ensnares ‘white-hat’ makers of lower-cost generic drugs

To paraphrase what a one-time colleague once wrote about her bosses: Never trust Big Pharma, never trust Big Pharma, never trust Big Pharma. Here’s some of the latest evidence why: Even the industry’s so-called “white hats,”...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

Jones Day

European Commission Sets its Sights on Allegedly Excessive Drug Prices

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In the European Union, Big Pharma has been operating with a target on its back for the best part of the last decade. Following its 2008 sector inquiry into the pharmaceutical sector, the Commission vowed to clamp down on...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Generic Pricing Investigations Expand: Par Is Subpoenaed and the OIG Launches Its Own Investigation

Since we last reported on the generic pricing investigations the investigations have expanded. Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. disclosed in its March 13, 2015 Annual Report that it had received a December 5, 2014...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Second Circuit Hears Argument in People of the State of New York v. Actavis PLC

On April 13, 2015 the Second Circuit (Hon. Walker, Raggi, Droney) heard oral argument in People of the State of New York v. Actavis PLC. This case began in September 2014, when the New York Attorney General’s Office...more

The Volkov Law Group

Criminal Global Cartel Focus on Generic Pharmaceuticals

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The Antitrust Division is nearing the end of its largest, record-setting criminal cartel investigation – global auto parts suppliers. It has been a sprawling investigation that has leaped from product-to-product in the auto...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Public Outcry Over Generic Price Hikes Spurs Criminal Investigations

Drug manufacturers Impax Laboratories and Lannett Company have come under public scrutiny and, more recently, criminal investigation for their recent generic drug price increases. The companies disclosed in recent SEC filings...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

In re Lipitor Antitrust Litigation (D.N.J. 2014)

In the lastest instance of a plaintiff attempting to extend the Supreme Court's holding in FTC v. Actavis that "reverse payment" settlement agreements in ANDA litigation could be anticompetitive and violate the antitrust...more

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