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DOJ Criminal Health Care Enforcement: It’s Not Just for Federal Programs Anymore

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On July 10, 2020, in United States v. Ruan, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the convictions of two Alabama doctors for running an opiate “pill mill.” Among many other things, the government charged that the doctors used...more

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Ninth Circuit deepens circuit split in pharmaceutical industry-specific RICO proximate cause ruling

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Takeaway: To have standing to assert a civil RICO claim, federal RICO’s proximate cause requirement demands that there be a “direct relation” between the RICO violation and injury. ...more

Butler Snow LLP

Walking the Line Between Marketing and Malfeasance

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Opioid manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies and prescribers are facing a deluge of lawsuits that involve criminal and civil claims in both federal and state courts. On May 2, 2019, a federal jury in Boston, Massachusetts,...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Health Care Enforcement Quarterly Roundup - Q4 | January 2019

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This latest installment of the Health Care Enforcement Quarterly Roundup reflects on trends that persisted in 2018 and those emerging trends that will carry us into 2019 and beyond. Leading off with the US Department of...more

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DOJ Continues Aggressive Enforcement Action Against Opioid Manufacturers

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Recently the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a statement that it had intervened in a False Claims Act (FCA) case against Insys Therapeutics, Inc. and consolidated five separate qui tam cases into one case, U.S. ex rel...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

FCA Issues to Watch: Pharmaceutical and Device Developments | INSIDE THE FCA

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The government’s FCA enforcement efforts have continued to focus on key areas concerning the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. In fact, drug and device manufacturers accounted for nearly half of the enforcement...more

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Lawsuit Against Medtronic Alleges Racketeering Over Infuse Bone Graft

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When one big industry sues another we learn a lot about how business as usual is conducted. In this case Humana, a giant health insurer, has sued the medical device company Medtronic, maker of the Infuse bone graft. ...more

Miller Canfield

No Federal RICO Option for Failed State Worker’s Compensation Claims

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Plaintiffs who failed in their state worker’s compensation claim cannot sue their employers and their medical experts under federal civil racketeering laws, the en banc 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled....more

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