Legal Opinion
County of Suffolk v. Abbott Laboratories
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 30, 2004No. MDL 1456; No. CIV.A.01-12257-PBSPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Defendants have moved to dismiss the Amended Complaint filed by the County of Suffolk in New York in this multi-district litigation involving allegations of fraud against various pharmaceutical companies.1 Suffolk alleges that Defendant pharmaceutical manufacturers have fraudulently inflated the published average wholesale prices (“AWP’s”) of their drugs, and that these fraudulent AWP’s have caused the State' to overpay retail pharmacists for Medicaid drugs. Because New York bills the County for twenty-five percent of the State’s…
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- In Re Pharm. Industry Average Wholesale Price LitigationDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2004