BATON ROUGE, La. - (Mealey's) The Kos Pharmaceuticals subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories Inc. on Dec. 7 entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay a total of $41 million in criminal penalties and False Claims Act settlement for... Read More

MIAMI -- Heart device maker ELA Medical Inc. will pay $9,178,000 to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that it paid kickbacks through a distributor to doctors to induce them to use the company's products, according to a settlement filed Nov... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 5 said that it will not review a federal appeals court ruling that found that an orthopedic device company could be sued for false claims and kickbacks based on certification by health care providers that... Read More

BALTIMORE — Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. will pay $95 million to the federal government to resolve civil allegations that it marketed three drugs for off-label uses, promoted high doses of two drugs and paid kickbacks to health care... Read More

(Mealey's) Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and subsidiary DePuy International Ltd. will pay $76.9 million to resolve criminal and civil allegations in the United States and in the United Kingdom that they paid kickbacks to doctors in Greece, Poland... Read More

TRENTON, N.J. - (AP) Johnson & Johnson will take steps to get shareholder lawsuits brought on behalf of the company against its management and directors dismissed and create a board committee to oversee the health care product maker's quality... Read More

PHILADELPHIA - (AP) Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. will pay $422.5 million in penalties for marketing an epilepsy medicine for unapproved uses and for paying kickbacks to doctors to prescribe it and five other drugs, federal officials announced Thursday... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) A subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay more than $41 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to get doctors, physician groups and managed care organizations to prescribe or recommend two of the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $46 million to settle a lawsuit over alleged kickbacks to win government work. The Department of Justice charged that Sun Microsystems Inc., which Oracle bought last year, and other technology companies... Read More

PALO ALTO, Calif. - (AP) Hewlett-Packard Co. said Monday that it has agreed in principle to settle a lawsuit by the Department of Justice, which alleged that HP and other technology companies paid kickbacks to Accenture PLC in exchange for recommendations... Read More

DOVER, Del. - (AP) A federal judge in Delaware is rejecting a bid by New York's attorney general to amend an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. New York officials alleged in a 2009 lawsuit that Intel had paid billions of dollars in kickbacks to computer... Read More