Legal
North Carolina sued Insys on Thursday, accusing the pharmaceutical company of illegally pushing a powerful fentanyl-based cancer pain medicine called Subsys to boost profits amid the U.S. opioid epidemic.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania, alleges that Mario Schackelman jumped ship for Zimmer Biomet on Oct. 31 after a decade of selling for Synthes despite clauses in his contract barring him for working for a competitor for two years.
France’s competition authority finedJ&K $29.6M on Wednesday after it ruled the company had deliberately slowed market access to generic copies of its painkiller Durogesic.
The lawsuit filed by Margo Polett claimed that she re-injured her knees while making a Zimmer promotional video, after a double knee replacement procedure in 2006 using the company’s Gender Solutions device.
Last month Align Tech filed formal patent infringement complaints against medical device maker 3Shape.
Roche’s patent dispute with Shire over the new haemophilia drug Hemlibra has escalated, with Shire filing a new motion in a U.S. court that Roche says aims to stop some patients from getting its medicine.
Homicide investigators have taken over the investigation into the weekend death of Apotex Chairman of the Board and founder Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey.
The Mass. Attorney General said the deal will resolve an investigation by her office and those in four other states related to Medtronic’s promotion of Infuse.
Craig Dees, CEO of Provectus treated the company as “his own personal piggy bank” by submitting hundreds of falsified records to obtain $3.2M for personal expenses
The company’s vaccine controversy could cause legal and image problems for years to come.
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