GlaxoSmithKline sold a total of 20 drugs with questionable security that were made in a huge plant in Puerto Rico was widespread with pollution for years.
Cheryl D. Eckard, corporate quality Manager, claimed you in your whistle blower suit Glaxo of problems had warned you, but the company released instead of addressing. Among the drugs that affected paxil antidepressant; Bactroban, an ointment; Avandia, a diabetes drug troubled; Coreg, a heart medication;Tagamet, a drug, the acid Rückfluß.Keine known were disgusted patients was have, although such would be difficult to detect cases.
In a growing wave of recent actions have argued that patients misled drug makers and cheated federal and Governments, by Medicare and Medicaid, pay for a large proportion of health care.
With demands from industry insiders, federal prosecutors demand not only record are fines but allusions to more serious actions.
A research suffer drought, thousands of employees pharmaceutical companies have sent entlassen.Einige which tabled again whistle blower complaints, which can lead to criminal investigations.
Ministry of justice the settlement in a press conference announced Tuesday afternoon in Boston, officials say a $ 150 million payment, was the largest criminal charges to rules such payment ever from a manufacturer of counterfeit drugs.The result is also $600 million in civil Sanktionen.Der share of whistle blower to 96 million US dollars, one of the highest awards such as in health care fraud case.
When asked if anyone besides the Corporation burdened could fees, Carmen M. Ortiz, the Attorney for Massachusetts, would only say that the investigation was still ongoing.
GlaxoSmithKline released a statement saying, it regretted the Puerto Rico plant in violation of the good manufacturing practices operate.The company said that if only one plant had taken part problem in 2009 wurde.Amerikanische closed shares 0.35 percent fell on Tuesday.
Tony West, Assistant Attorney General responsible for the Department of civil division, said hundreds of such action or proceeding federal review waited.
"We have opened further investigation, we have again more taxpayers was lost, we had more convictions, higher penalties and fines in the last two years than we had in any other two-year period," Mr West said in an interview.
Abuses that win earn a cut of any fine.By the Federal Government is Mrs Eckard collect$ 96 million and will collect additional millions from States.
The suits filed under seal, all have for many years in size and scope, but increases the collective threat to the industry was wird.Jede was successful claim largely unnoticed because the growing mountain by a wall of judicial secrecy covers almost every week filed more suits, with more shows.
The suits are under a federal law that originally intended civil war Kraemer stop from the sale of rancid meat to the Union army by the payment of premiums, tipsters abgelegt.Die has become the law most successful goal pharmaceutical industry because the Government buys now far more pills as a bullet, and health care fraud is common.
Health care cases were about 80 percent of the $3.1 billion recovered by the Justice Department under the false claims Act last year taxpayers against fraud Education Fund, a non-profit-whistle-blower-advocacy group in Washington, at the Montag.Meiste money is usually programmes were submitted in the false claims, such as Medicaid and Medicare returned to.
The food and drug administration and the Inspector General of the health and Human Services Department both recently announced that charges against executives personally would follow something under a strict liability provision of the Act, which made since 2007 has sentenced three top leaders of the Purdue Pharma, sentenced to probation and personally fined $ 34 million, while Purdue $ 600 million paid.
The rule allows executives are prosecuted and excluded from the Government sales even if you were not aware certain injuries.
Legislation could such claims to win erleichtern.Im House of representatives passed a bill that allows senior management personnel are to be excluded even if you have left the company where the fraud occurred last month and allows the Inspector General to track parent companies for the sins of the subsidiaries.
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