Tag: Takeda
Federal Jury Finds Takeda Pharmaceuticals Destroyed Documents: Awards Plaintiffs $6 Billion in Punitive Damages
Earlier this week, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. was ordered to pay $6 billion in punitive damages by a jury in Lafayette, Louisiana. Eli Lilly, Takeda’s co-promotion partner, was ordered to pay an additional $3 billion. The jury found that Takeda hid the risks that Actos, its multibillion dollar diabetes medicine, put […]
LITIGATION ROUND-UP
Settlements On October 15th, Fougera Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay $22.75 million to resolve civil allegations related to Medicaid drug pricing claims. The government alleged that between September 1995 and October 2013, Fougera knowingly set, reported and maintained fraudulent and/or inflated pricing information for certain drugs that resulted in overpayments by […]
