Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Ohio Supreme Court ruled last Tuesday that the state’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as part of national opioid litigation, a decision that …

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Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The province of British Columbia can bring a class action lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for opioid harms on behalf of multiple governments across Canada, the country’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday. In 2018, BC sued more than 40 drug manufacturers, …

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InHouseBlog

APRIL 8, 2022

Senior Counsel – Corporate , Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions (Minneapolis, MN). Senior Director, Compliance Risk Navigation , Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Tarrytown, NY). Director, Corporate Counsel – R&D , Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Tarrytown, NY). Employment Counsel , Relativity Space (Long Beach, CA).

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Scott announced that one week before its trial is to begin, the city has reached an $80 million settlement with Teva Pharmaceuticals to resolve the city’s claims over the firm’s role in fueling Baltimore’s opioid epidemic. Mayor Brandon M. Teva …

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Insurance Journal

AUGUST 8, 2024

The third trial over claims that discontinued heartburn drug Zantac ended in a mistrial on Wednesday when jurors could not agree about whether pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim was responsible for an Illinois man’s cancer. Martin Gross alleged in his lawsuit …

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Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Source: Litigation Team of Jason Halper and Sara (Bussiere) Brauerman Join Vinson & Elkins in New York | Vinson & Elkins LLP

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Complex Discovery

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These enforcement actions targeted critical sectors, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, technology, and energy. Banking and insurance, as well as manufacturing, each represented 10.3% Energy and natural resources accounted for 7.1% , followed by chemicals and pharmaceuticals at 4.8%. of the total​.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 22, 2024

Pharmacy benefit managers, or simply PBMs, are often owned by either the pharmacies themselves or sometimes by insurers, which creates a lot of self-dealing to say the least. These PBMs are middlemen who receive 50% of the value of the drug, significantly raising drug prices. This has nothing to do with IP whatsoever.

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Forensic Psychologist

JANUARY 1, 2016

The solipsist premise of Peter Weir’s 1998 Truman Show , starring Jim Carrey as an insurance adjuster who realizes that his entire life is actually a TV show, was not original. The psychiatric patient in Robert Heinlein’s 1941 short story, “ They— ,” was convinced that he was an actor on a stage; the troubled protagonist of Philip K.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Walgreens Boots Alliance agreed to pay $106.8 million to settle charges it fraudulently billed the U.S. government for prescriptions that were never dispensed, the Department of Justice said on Friday. The Justice Department said Walgreens violated the federal False Claims …

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 14, 2025

Dermatologicals, which include a number of high-priced, private label drugs, account for the biggest share of the total drug spend in the California workers’ compensation system, a new report shows. Data from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute shows recent shifts …

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Pharmaceuticals 105

Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Migraine drugs represent a small percentage of prescriptions dispensed to injured workers in California, but they make up a larger share of workers’ compensation drug payments, a new report shows. Fewer than 1% of all prescriptions dispensed to injured California …

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Pharmaceuticals 105

Insurance Journal

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Department of Justice sued Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. for allegedly dispensing opioids and other controlled substances at pharmacies across the US while ignoring red flags that the prescriptions were likely illegal. The lawsuit claims Walgreens pharmacists filled millions of …

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