Kmart pays $35.3M to settle hard-fought whistleblower case alleging ...

Markets Insider-39 minutes ago

The "qui tam" (whistleblower) case – filed in 2008 by Phillips & Cohen on behalf of former Kmart pharmacist James Garbe – alleged that from 2004 to 2016 Kmart charged Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare as well as private insurers more for generic prescription drugs than it charged customers who paid cash. Pharmacies are ...

Ga. doctor prescribed weight-loss drug to patients she never saw

MyAJC-9 hours ago

In one particularly notable case, a Miami pharmacist received a nine-year prison sentence after orchestrating a scheme in which doctors wrote prescriptions for phentermine based on the answers to brief questionnaires submitted online. One of those who obtained the drug, a 46-year-old Texas woman, died of an overdose.

When it came to launching legal battles, Apotex founder Barry ...

Toronto Star-9 hours ago

Tom McAnulty, a pharmacist who formerly worked in the brand-name pharmaceutical industry, said that brand-name companies “detested” Sherman's litigiousness. “Barry was one of the most aggressive,” McAnulty said. “Apotex, they would challenge all sorts of rulings by the government.” But the pair of them personally got ..