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Court Finds Against Drug Companies in Medicaid Overcharge Pricing Scheme
For the second time this year, the State of Alabama has won a significant victory in court against powerful drug companies. This time, the litigation involved
GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp and with the court awarding a total of $114,247,233 to the state. Earlier this year, the state was awarded a $215 million verdict against the [...]
Alaska Settles for $15 Million in Suit Against Lilly’s Zyprexa
The state of Alaska has been involved with an almost month-long trial over a lawsuit with Eli Lilly and Company, Inc., seeking damages regarding the use of the drug Zyprexa in the state’s Medicaid program. The trial began on March 3, 2008, and was continuing when a $15 million settlement was reached.
The state brought suit [...]
Report Calls Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Crisis a “Hoax”
A Case of “One Bad Apple Can Spoil the Barrel”
The belief that the United States is in the throes of a medical malpractice lawsuit crisis can be blamed on just a tiny group of negligent doctors, according to “The Great Medical Malpractice Hoax” just released by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.
Just 5.9 percent of [...]
Medical Malpractice Lawsuits are Found to be Anything BUT “Frivolous”
A lot has been written in the media about how “frivolous” medical error and malpractice lawsuits are clogging the legal system. Apparently this is far from the truth according to a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The oft-repeated political argument for restricting patients’ legal rights is that undeserving patients are overburdening the [...]
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