Morrisey joins antitrust suit against Mylan, other drug companies
The West Virginia attorney general joined a multistate lawsuit alleging antitrust violations against six generic drug manufacturers.
According to a news release sent from his office Monday, Patrick Morrisey filed a companion case with the state of Connecticut’s lawsuit against Aurobindo Pharma USA, Citron Pharma, Heritage Pharmaceuticals, Mayne Pharma, Mylan Pharmaceuticals and Teva Pharmaceuticals.
According to the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court of Connecticut, Connecticut’s ongoing, non-public investigation into price increases for certain generic pharmaceuticals, “uncovered evidence of a broad, well-coordinated and long-running series of schemes to fix the prices and allocate markets for a number of generic pharmaceuticals in the United States.”
In the release, Morrisey said the allegations, if true, harm consumers.
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