State v. Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Court of Appeals of Utah
Judge Jill M. Pohlman authored this Opinion, in which Judges David N. Mortensen and Diana Hagen concurred.
1Opinion of the Court
POHLMAN, Judge:
¶1 After observing a trend of allegedly fraudulent pharmaceutical prices being submitted to the State Medicaid program, the State of Utah brought civil actions against a number of pharmaceutical companies for fraud and alleged violations of the Utah False Claims Act (the UFCA). Utah Code Ann. §§ 26-20-1 to -15 (LexisNexis 2013). Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. and two of its subsidiaries, Watson Laboratories Inc. and Watson Pharma Inc. (collectively, the Watson Defendants), were among the named defendants. 1 The district court dismissed the claims against the Watson Defendants…
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