"Current US Lawsuits Against Big Pharma
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/The_Hague/uslawsuits.htm
Pharmaceutical Industry 'Business With Disease' Facing Further
Legal Challenges
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A Judge in the Superior Court of New Jersey in the United States,
presiding over a class action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical
industry, has approved a master class action complaint form that can be
used by all plaintiffs who wish to sue the pharma-cartel.
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US healthcare fraud convictions up 22%
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The number of criminal convictions for healthcare fraud by companies
and individuals rose 22 per cent in the US last year amid a crackdown
by federal authorities
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Bristol-Myers Says It Has Been Subpoenaed
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The Bristol-Myers Squibb Company said yesterday that it had received a
subpoena from the United States attorney in Boston over pricing and
marketing of drugs covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
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Pfizer Next In Line
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A West Virginia court has ruled that a lawsuit involving Rezulin, a
diabetes drug, can proceed as a class action against the world's
largest drugmaker, Pfizer, Inc.
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AstraZeneca and Medco Charged With Fraud
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Crime no longer pays quite as well as it did--or at least, not for
health-care firms involved in cheating the American government. On June
20th, AstraZeneca, a British drug firm, agreed to pay $355m to settle
federal charges that, among other things, it gave free samples of its
cancer drug, Zoladex, to American doctors, to curry favour, knowing
that these same doctors were billing the government's Medicare health
insurance scheme for unwarranted reimbursement.
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Schering-Plough Corporation Facing Federal Charges Over Illegal Drug
Marketing Practices
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The Schering-Plough Corporation said yesterday (May 30th) that it could
soon be indicted in a federal investigation into its prescription drug
marketing practices and face charges that employees destroyed documents
related to the case. According to the company, prosecutors are
examining whether Schering-Plough illegally gave financial grants and
other items of value to doctors and other customers, whether it
marketed drugs for unapproved uses and whether it submitted false
pricing information to the government so that Medicaid paid too much
for its products.
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Trial Lawyers Are Now Focusing on Lawsuits Against Drug Makers
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Enriched and emboldened by the consistent exposure of their business
model by this Foundation and after successful fights against asbestos
and tobacco companies, some of theUSA's top plaintiffs' lawyers have
trained their sights on drug makers, claiming that many giant
pharmaceutical companies have hidden the dangers of medicines the
lawyers say have harmed thousands of people. More ...
New York State vs GlaxoSmithKline and Pharmacia
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On February 13th 2003, exactly eleven days after the publication of Dr
Rath's first Open Letter exposing the financial interests behind the
pharmaceutical 'business with disease' New York State Attorney General
Eliot Spitzer filed complaints in the Supreme Court of the State of New
York against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pharmacia (now part of Pfizer)
for making fraudulent and deceptive misrepresentations that conceal the
true average wholesale price of its drugs from consumers, Government
agencies and drug price reporting services.
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Recommended anti-crackpot web pages:
http://www.quackpotwatch.org/
http://www.bolenreport.net/
http://www.northamericanconsumersagainsthealthfraud.org/
http://www.wcanews.com/archives/2002/may2202c.htm
http://www.usdoj.gov/dag/pubdoc/hipaa01fe19.htm
http://www.nutritioninstituteofamerica.org/research/DeathByMedicine/DeathByMedicine1.htm