Oxycontin has become so pervasive in eastern Kentucky the drug was dubbed “Heroin of the Hills.” Now, after years of struggling to combat the abuse of the narcotic, Kentucky officials are getting a chance to pursue the drug’s maker in …
Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced that his office has recovered $25.2 million from five pharmaceutical companies that he sued alleging unlawful inflation of drug costs paid by Louisiana taxpayers through the Medicaid program. The companies — Actavis, Boehringer Ingelheim, …
A North Carolina legislative committee has removed from a liability lawsuit measure a provision that would have given broad product protections for pharmaceutical companies. A Senate judiciary panel has deleted language from the House version that would give drug companies …
