Connecticut et al v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.

  1. August 15, 2024

    Price-Fixing Claims Against Par Pharma Tossed After Ch. 11

    A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday tossed Par Pharmaceutical Cos. Inc. from two price-fixing lawsuits after the defendant and its parent, Endo International PLC, recently filed the Chapter 11 reorganization plans that they said shielded them from the cases.

  2. July 22, 2024

    Price-Fixing Claims Against Par Pharma On Chopping Block

    A Connecticut federal judge has asked a coalition of states to explain why he shouldn't toss two price-fixing lawsuits against Par Pharmaceutical Companies Inc., noting that the defendant and its parent, Endo International PLC, recently filed Chapter 11 reorganization plans shielding them from the cases.

  3. July 01, 2024

    State AGs Get Stay Lifted In Generic Drug Pricing Litigation

    A Connecticut federal judge on Monday agreed to lift a partial discovery stay in a trio of generic drug pricing antitrust suits led by the attorneys general of New York and Connecticut, according to a short, text-only order posted to each of the case dockets.

  4. June 27, 2024

    State AGs Want Stay Lifted In Generic Drug Pricing Suit

    The attorneys general of New York and Connecticut have asked a federal judge to lift a partial discovery stay in three state-led generic drug pricing lawsuits against the pharmaceutical industry, saying it is no longer necessary because sentencing is complete in a parallel U.S. Department of Justice proceeding.

  5. June 03, 2024

    Drug Cos. Can Depose DC AG In Drug Price-Fixing Row

    A Connecticut federal judge reluctantly ordered the District of Columbia Attorney General's Office to be deposed by the drug companies wrapped up in more than 40 states' claims over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy, noting that he would not have done so but for the case being remanded from a sprawling multidistrict litigation in Pennsylvania.

  6. April 25, 2024

    Conn. Judge In Drug Price-Fixing Suit Reveals Day Pitney Ties

    U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea of the District of Connecticut said Thursday he will not recuse himself from overseeing state enforcers' price-fixing claims against Sandoz Inc. and other drug companies despite Sandoz's attorneys being from Day Pitney LLP, where he was once a partner.

  7. February 01, 2024

    State-Led Generic Drug Cases Removed From MDL

    The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has sent a trio of cases from state-level enforcers back to federal court in Connecticut, separating them from the sprawling MDL centralized in Pennsylvania over claims of price fixing in the generic drug industry.

  8. June 24, 2019

    Drugmakers' Emails, Calls Show Price-Fix Coverup, AGs Say

    Unredacted emails and phone records show Teva Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Inc. and 18 other major U.S. drug manufacturers conspiring in an industrywide price-fixing scheme to keep the cost of hundreds of generic drugs artificially high, according to a complaint unsealed Monday by the Maryland attorney general's office.

  9. June 04, 2019

    44 States' Generic-Drug Pricing Suit Rolled Into Pa. MDL

    A lawsuit filed in Connecticut last month by 44 state attorneys general accusing drugmakers of a sprawling scheme to fix generic-drug prices was transferred Tuesday to the Pennsylvania federal court overseeing multidistrict litigation over pricing in the industry.

  10. May 13, 2019

    Teva A 'Consistent Participant' In Drug Price-Fixing, AGs Say

    Teva Pharmaceuticals is at the center of a sprawling new lawsuit in Connecticut in which a coalition of 44 state attorneys general accuse the drugmaker and more than a dozen rivals of conspiring to keep generics prices artificially high.