BOSTON — (Mealey’s) Pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott on Oct. 23 pleaded guilty to health care fraud, and its former president was arrested for conspiracy to pay kickbacks to physicians, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts... Read More

BOSTON - (Mealey's) Financial giant Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. has agreed to pay $102 million to settle claims that it illegally provided funding to lenders that provided Massachusetts homeowners with subprime loans and has agreed to a number of... Read More

The first-degree murder conviction of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, arising from the 2013 shooting death of fellow player, Odin L. Lloyd, was vacated due to Hernandez’s suicide while incarcerated. Hernandez was found hanging... Read More

BOSTON — (Mealey’s) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on April 17 affirmed a $63 million Children’s Motrin verdict, finding that the plaintiffs’ warning claim is not preempted, that its key expert was qualified to testify... Read More

Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts wrote for the Court on March 16, 2018 that a generic drug user’s negligence claim against Merck had been properly dismissed by the Judge Kenneth J. Fishman of the Middlesex... Read More

After the brutal 2012 murder of Barbara Coyne in Boston, police identified Timothy Kostka as a suspect from fingerprints, one bloody, at the scene, and videotape from a nearby store showing an individual who looked like Timothy engaged in a transaction... Read More

BOSTON - (Mealey's) A Massachusetts federal jury on Oct. 1 ordered a defunct Merck & Co. Inc. subsidiary, Warrick Pharmaceuticals Corp., to pay $4,563,328 for causing the state to pay inflated prices for the asthma drug albuterol ( Commonwealth... Read More

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) said last week that the Farmington pharmacy linked to an outbreak of fungal meningitis that has claimed at least 14 lives and sickened 170 people across 11 states misled state regulators and illegally shipped large... Read More

BOSTON -- (Mealey's) A Massachusetts jury awarded $71 million in compensatory damages on Dec. 14 to the estate and only son of a woman who said she began smoking free Newport cigarettes handed out in her neighborhood by Lorillard Tobacco Co., according... Read More

BOSTON — (Mealey’s) Pfizer Inc. has agreed to a $325 million class settlement of claims by third-party payers that allege that the off-label promotion of the epilepsy drug Neurontin violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations... Read More

By Camden R. Webb and Robert D. Perrow In June, Barclays Bank agreed to pay $453 million to settle charges that its conduct resulted in manipulation of the Libor interest rate. Although lawsuits involving potential Libor manipulation had been pending... Read More