March 04, 2026
Sandoz parent company Sandoz AG contested generic drug price-fixing complaints from Southwest Airlines, Walmart, Walgreen and United Healthcare, arguing that the direct action plaintiffs cannot pursue the company in the wider Pennsylvania federal court multidistrict litigation because the Swiss firm is too far removed from its Sandoz Inc. subsidiary.
March 02, 2026
Epic Pharma LLC must face the majority of suits by hospitals, insurers and other drug purchasers alleging it conspired to raise and control the price of gallstone medication ursodiol, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.
January 30, 2026
More than two dozen pharmaceutical companies accused of fixing generic-drug prices have again asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to disqualify a former Connecticut assistant attorney general now in private practice from representing insurers Humana Inc. and Molina Healthcare Inc. in a sprawling multidistrict litigation proceeding.
January 09, 2026
Former Connecticut Assistant Attorney General Joseph Nielsen and his law firm, Lowey Dannenberg PC, should not be disqualified from representing insurers in multidistrict litigation over generic drug price-fixing because he did not have any special knowledge that the states suing drugmakers hadn't already shared with the private plaintiffs, according to a special master's report and recommendation.
December 09, 2025
Attorneys from Lowey Dannenberg PC and Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP are teaming up to represent insurance giant Humana in the first bellwether case set for trial in multidistrict litigation accusing pharmaceutical companies of fixing generic drug prices.
September 12, 2025
Drug companies accused of fixing prices for generics are seeking to disqualify former Connecticut Assistant Attorney General Joseph Nielsen and his law firm from representing insurers in a multidistrict litigation, arguing Nielsen had access to confidential information as a government attorney that he could unfairly use against them now.
November 05, 2018
Humana on Friday asked the Pennsylvania federal court overseeing the sprawling multidistrict litigation over generic drug prices to formally incorporate its action into the MDL, saying its claims target many of the same drugs that the group of states and proposed classes of drug buyers are targeting.
August 06, 2018
Insurance giant Humana has slapped a host of generic-drug makers with a sprawling racketeering suit in Pennsylvania federal court alleging they conspired to hike prices on a range of everyday medications from muscle relaxers to antidepressants, resulting in "extraordinary" prices over a four-year period.