A federal judge has ordered the registration of all potential claims of individuals who received defective Stryker Rejuvenate hip implants. This follows a recent global settlement to resolve thousands of cases over the recalled hip implant and the deadline for accepting the terms of settlement requires enrollment in the by March 2,...

According to the Department of Justice, AstraZeneca LP, a pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Delaware, has agreed to pay the government $7.9 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme in violation of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. AstraZeneca markets and sells pharmaceutical products in the...

Stryker Corporation's OtisMed Unit has paid more than $80 million to settle a criminal and civil Department of Justice investigation which was started by a whistleblower under the False Claims Act. According to the complaint, OtisMed was selling devices used to help surgeons guide knee replacement components during knee surgery even though it had...

Doctors were paid millions of dollars to sell a new generation of anticoagulents including Xarelto, Pradaxa and Eliquis, the largest payments being made by Novo Nordisk to promote its diabetes drug Victoza. The report was published by the public interest journalism group Pro Publica on January 7, saying the companies behind the newest generation of...

An indictment was filed today charging Vascular Solutions Inc. (VSI) and its chief executive officer, Howard Root, with selling medical devices without U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval and conspiring to defraud the United States by concealing the illegal sales activity. The devices at issue are from VSI's "Vari-Lase" product line,...

Another major settlement for Johnson & Johnson's DePuy OrthopedicsΠmay be announced soon in which the medical device maker will pay another $250 million to resolve about 1,000 more cases. Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Orthopaedics subsidiary previously agreed to $2.4 million in hip settlements, resolving about 8,000 lawsuits brought by individuals who...

United States District Court Justice Paul Gardepe has ruled that Uncle Sam may pursue its Federal lawsuit against the Swiss dru maker Novartis for paying multimillion dollar kickbacks to doctors to prescrive its drugs including a $9,750 dinner for three at a Japanese restairant. The federal government's lawsuit is one of two it filed in...

Drug manufacturers and medical device companies paid at least $3.5 Billion to U.S. physicians in the final five months of last year according to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services The payments and so-called transfers of value to an estimated 546,000 doctors and 1,360 teaching hospitals include such items as free meals that company...