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California High Court: Pharmacies That 'Passed On' Higher Costs Have UCL Injury
Posted on 12 Jul 2010 by Bryan Redding

SAN FRANCISCO - (Mealey's) Pharmacies have standing to pursue unfair competition law (UCL) claims alleging that they paid higher prices because of price fixing by pharmaceutical companies, even though they passed the higher prices on to consumers... Read More

Tags: pharmacies , Eli Lilly & Co. , Hanover Shoe v. United Shoe Mach , Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. , Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals , pharmaceutical companies , Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America , James Clayworth , Abbott Laboratories , Pfizer Inc. , Wyeth Pharmaceuticals , California , UCL , Amgen Inc. , Allergan Inc. , Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois , Business and Professions Code , price fixing , Cartwright Act , unfair competition law , AstraZeneca International , California Supreme Court , Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. , Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. , Litigation , lawsuit , Merck & Co. , Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

11th Circuit: MDL Plaintiffs Didn’t Lay Foundation For Admitting Accutane Study
Posted on 10 May 2010 by Tom Moylan

ATLANTA — (Mealey’s) The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 7 affirmed summary judgment in six federal Accutane cases, finding that the plaintiffs had not shown that their excluded causation expert relied on a new study linking the... Read More

Tags: IBD , tort , personal injury , In Re: Accutane Products Liability , inflammatory bowel disease , Accutane , Hoffman-LaRoche Inc. , Litigation , lawsuit , Julie Bishop