Legal Opinion
J.E. Pierce Apothecary, Inc. v. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided March 31, 2005No. CIV.A.98-12635-WGYPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
“If everybody keeps doing what they’re doing, we will probably never get our arms around the medical expense trend.”
Charles Baker, CEO Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, Inc., March 11, 2005 1
YOUNG, Chief Judge.
We Americans spend $200,000,000,000.00 on prescription drugs per year. David S. Nalven, Prescription Drug Litigation: Seeking Reform through the Courts, 49 Boston Bar J., Jan./Feb.2005, 18 (2005). As a result, courts are seeing a rise in cases challenging the pharmaceutical industry’s practices in the pricing, development, and mass marketing of pharmaceuticals. 2 Id. This…
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