U.S. Justice Department probing Visa over debit-card practices
REUTERS
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether Visa Inc is engaging in anticompetitive practices in the debit-card market, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. read more »
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Drug companies seek billion-dollar tax deductions from opioid settlement
WASHINGTON POST
Roche Diagnostics and Humana settle $12.5 million Medicare fraud lawsuit
INDIANAPOLIS STAR
McKinsey reaches $573 million settlement with US states over role in opioid crisis
REUTERS
McKinsey & Co, the consulting firm, has agreed to pay $573 million to resolve investigations by most U.S. states over its alleged role in “turbocharging” sales of opioids, fueling a nationwide epidemic. read more »
Former Insys exec John Kapoor gets 5 1/2 years for opioid scheme
CNBC
John Kapoor, 76, the former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in Boston’s federal court.
A jury found him guilty of racketeering conspiracy last May and prosecutors said his actions helped fuel the opioid crisis.
California Challenges OCC Rule That Facilitates Predatory Lending Schemes
CA AG
Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies
AP NEWS
Olivia, who earned a badge for selling more than 600 boxes of cookies, had spotted palm oil as an ingredient on the back of one of her packages but was relieved to see a green tree logo next to the words “certified sustainable.” She assumed that meant her Thin Mints and Tagalongs weren’t harming rainforests, orangutans or those harvesting the orange-red palm fruit.
Armed Mexicans Were Smuggled In to Guard Border Wall, Whistle-Blowers Say
NY TIMES
In a complaint unsealed on Friday, whistle-blowers working on President Trump’s wall said that contractors were illegally bringing in Mexican guards to protect construction sites.
Stock Sales by Leaders at Coronavirus Testing Company Raise Legal Concerns
NPR
Early on in the coronavirus pandemic, as governments scrambled to find rapid and reliable coronavirus tests, three states ended up turning to a small public company that just months earlier had no major customers and was losing millions of dollars.
JPMorgan Chase to pay $250 million for failings in asset, wealth business
REUTERS
JPMorgan Chase & Co has agreed to pay $250 million for risk management and other control failings in its asset and wealth management business, a U.S. regulator said on Tuesday, in the second chunky penalty for the bank in less than two months.
"Haven knowingly submitted false claims to the Medicare and Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary hospice care for certain patients who had lengths of stays greater than three years," Acting U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow in Jacksonville said in a prepared statement.
The whistleblower who accused Abbott Laboratories of improperly marketing bile duct stents for off-label use asked a Texas federal judge Friday to grant a new trial after a jury in April cleared the medical device maker in a False Claims Act suit that sought $219 million in damages.
National plaintiffs' law firm announces tenth office, expanded California presence Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a Seattle-based law firm representing plaintiffs in high-profile class actions and complex litigation today announced the opening of a new office in San Diego, marking its tenth
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., visited Hagens Berman's Seattle office on Aug. 3, 2015 to discuss gun control. Congresswoman Giffords, who was shot
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Attorney Steve W. Berman, managing partner and co-founder of Seattle-based Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, was today named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers
Steve Berman has been ranked as one of the top lawyers in the nation in LawDragon's seventh annual LawDragon 500 guide. The list serves to recognize
For the fourth consecutive year and the sixth time overall, plaintiffs' law firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP has been named to the prestigious National Law Journal's
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Being a lawyer today can be tough, especially for those of us in the Class Action realm trying to redress practices that inflate the price of drugs. I could recite chapter
