AG Sues Flu Shot Distributors
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has taken action against two flu shot distributors, ASAP Meds and Dublin Medical, accusing the companies of price gouging during the flu vaccine shortage.
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With flu shots in short supply in the U.S. this year, places that are able to offer them have been mobbed by vaccine seekers.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit today against two distributors of the scarce flu vaccine for allegedly charging exorbitant prices to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman, in violation of state law.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Thursday against two flu shot distributors, accusing them of offering the vaccine to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman at prices inflated up to 1,000 percent.
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With flu vaccine shortages, some companies administering the vaccine are selling it at exorbitant prices. Two such cases from Grant and Pierce counties have been filed with the Washington State Attorney General&#39;s office.
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A Fort Lauderdale drug wholesaler accused by the state of overcharging for flu vaccine is turning over its vaccine inventory to the government and will no longer buy or sell it.
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A CONVENIENCE store owner has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States from Saudi Arabia and offering it for sale to a hospital, apparently to cash in on the national shortage.
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A Fort Lauderdale pharmaceutical wholesaler facing the nation&#39;s first price-gouging lawsuits related to the flu vaccine has a history of charging exorbitant prices for hard-to-find drugs, the
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RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Health is seeking nearly 100,000 additional doses of flu vaccine for statewide distribution.
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A state agency issued an emergency order Thursday that threatens jail time and fines for health care providers caught giving flu shots to healthy, low-risk people.
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AUSTIN -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said today that his office will investigate complaints that flu shot distributors are marking up vials of the vaccine by as much as 1,000 percent.
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Texas and Connecticut joined Kansas and Florida last week in filing suits against a flu vaccine wholesaler for trying to sell scarce supplies of the immunization for 10 times the normal market value.
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WASHINGTON - Federal health officials are urging doctors to restrict flu shots to those patients at highest risk from influenza, an appeal for voluntary rationing after the nation's vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, citing manufacturing problems at the Chiron Corp...
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The US flu vaccine shortage has reached a low point. Distributors accross the nation and here in Texas are hiking up prices, taking advantage of the extreme need.
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TORONTO (CP) - The organization that insures Canadian doctors is urging them to arm themselves legally if they are giving flu shots to Americans crossing the border because of vaccine shortages in the United States.
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The Kansas attorney general&#39;s office has settled a lawsuit alleging that a Florida company attempted to sell flu vaccine at inflated prices.
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DENVER - While officials across the nation are urging healthy adults and schoolchildren to skip their annual flu shot, parents are mulling their options. The news that British regulators have shut down a major flu-shot supplier carries particular concern in Colorado, which was the epicenter of last year's flu season with 12,885 reported cases and the deaths of 12 children...