3 Drug Makers Are Convicted in Reimbursement Overcharges
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AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough must pay damages for overcharging on certain drugs.
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The OFT says that the NHS is paying hundreds of millions of pounds too much for branded drugs.
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Federal prosecutors cracked a global cartel that had illegally fixed prices of memory chips in personal computers and servers for three years.
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Decision clears three who were arrested during 16-month probe costing Â£800,000.
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Johnson & Johnson received subpoenas from federal prosecutors related to sales and marketing of three drugs.
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Charging workersâ out-of-pocket costs for medicines may be more than offset by reduced productivity, study finds.
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Schering-Plough Corp. paid $435 million in fines and pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy charges to settle Justice Department accusations that it lied to the government about drug prices and improperly marketed cancer drugs for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Three people accused of scamming Microsoft Corp. by buying sharply discounted software intended for educational institutions and reselling it to nonacademic customers were convicted on conspiracy and fraud charges, federal prosecutors said.
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The company was found guilty of infringing three patents owned by a smaller rival, the Broadcom Corporation.
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The $80 million penalties against the founders of Pilgrim Baxter are the largest imposed on individuals since investigations began last fall into improper trading at some mutual fund companies.
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New Yorkâs attorney general is looking into whether insurers overcharged patients for out-of-network doctors.
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Four of the nationâs biggest makers of artificial joints will pay a total of $310 million in fines to settle accusations that they paid kickbacks to surgeons.
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Three doctors are charged over a plan to make and sell a bootleg anti-wrinkle drug which left four people paralysed.
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The four companies, charged with criminal conspiracy to violate anti-kickback laws, have agreed to pay $311 million in penalties.
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Federal prosecutors have announced the convictions of three Oregon residents, saying they had colluded to buy and resell some $29 million worth of Microsoft software intended for educational institutions to non-academic customers.
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An Australian court ruled Wednesday that a convicted heroin dealer can claim a 220,000 Australian dollar (US$165 million; euro 129 million) tax deduction for money that was stolen during a drug deal.
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Since 1992 when the Food and Drug Administration began charging &quot;user fees&quot; to drug companies seeking FDA approval, the agency has received more than $825 million in payments for its services.