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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Democratic AGs Oppose Washing Away Appliance Efficiency...more
Virginia AG Jason Miyares, along with a bipartisan coalition of eight other AGs, announced a $720 million settlement with eight opioid drug manufacturers to resolve allegations that they contributed to the opioid epidemic....more
New York AG Letitia James, along with a bipartisan coalition of 15 other state AGs and additional parties, has reached a settlement in principle with members of the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma, Inc., to resolve...more
Teva Pharmaceuticals Agrees to Pay $450 Million to Resolve FCA Claims - On October 10, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and Teva Neuroscience Inc. will pay $450 million to...more
DOJ Announces Agreement With Rite Aid to Settle Allegations of Violating the FCA and CSA in Relation to Opioid Dispensing - On July 10, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Rite Aid Corporation and 10 of its...more
Walmart has offered to pay $3.1 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits filed against the deep-pocketed retailing giant, accusing it of complicity through its nationwide pharmacy operations in the lethal opioid abuse and...more
In January of 2018, Robins Kaplan LLP filed a lawsuit against the nation’s largest opioid manufacturers and distributors on behalf of three Tribal Nations in South Dakota. It was one of the first complaints filed by a Tribe...more
The end of 2021 was marked by several significant developments in the wave of litigation that has resulted from the opioid crisis of the last several years. These developments, however, are sufficiently inconsistent that it...more
Just as attorneys generals for more than a dozen states inch toward a multibillion-dollar settlement with a drug maker faulted for its big role in the start of the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis, that health menace is...more
Over the last two months, McKinsey & Company — one of the world’s largest consulting firms — resolved matters with all 56 state attorneys general regarding investigations into its role in providing marketing and consulting...more
Judges presiding over multidistrict litigations, known as MDLs, must walk a tightrope between individual and collective needs. ...more
DUSTING SPRAY DEATHS AND INJURIES - Robins Kaplan LLP is investigating and litigating “dusting” cases, which arise when someone inhales—or “huffs”—compressed gas dusting spray for its intoxicating effects while driving and...more
Saudi Aramco’s slow trickle of IPO-related information continued this weekend, including its goal of setting overall company market value at a staggering $1.7 trillion. The figure, though massive, is still well short of the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In the latest development in the ultra-high stakes nationwide Prescription Opiate Litigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently granted the petition of six Ohio cities to appeal the ...more
This post is an update from our earlier blog post, available here, on the bellwether federal opioids trial in the Northern District of Ohio. Just hours prior to the start of the trial in a consolidated case involving two...more
Johnson & Johnson doled out $20 million to two Ohio counties rather than go through with its first federal opioid-related trial. The money is rather small potatoes for J&J, but it marks the “first time . . . the world’s...more
Top Tidjane Thiam ally Pierre-Olivier Bouee, Credit Suisse’s COO, has resigned in the wake of an internal probe finding that he “ordered the surveillance of the bank’s former wealth-management chief, Iqbal Khan, without...more
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
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently settled lawsuits with two employers it claims violated the Americans with Disabilities Act after rejecting a job applicant and terminating an employee based on their...more