Pharmaceutical ingredients company Alkaloids of Australia and former export manager Christopher Joyce have been charged over a cartel following a price-fixing investigation by the ACCC linked to the active ingredient in stomach cramp drug Buscopan.
Two psychiatrists at the heart of the Chelmsford deep sleep therapy scandal have had their defamation cases against publisher HarperCollins dismissed ,with a judge finding the lawsuits were an attempt to “rewrite history” regarding harm done to patients receiving their controversial treatment.
The lead applicant in a class action against Bayer over allegedly defective Essure contraceptive devices will ask the court to discontinue its claims against two makers of the controversial medical implants.
A judge has dismissed Pfizer’s bid for preliminary discovery to pursue a possible patent infringement case against drug maker Sandoz over a generic version of its blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis biologic Enbrel.
National medical centre operator Healius has agreed to pay back wages of $15.3 million to thousands of nurses, doctors and dentists after reporting “widespread underpayments” for over eight years.
A nursing home in Melbourne’s Western suburbs may be hit with a class action over a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility that resulted in the deaths of 11 residents.
The High Court has declined to take up Mylan’s challenge to a Full Court ruling upholding the invalidity of three patents for its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipidil.
American Medical Systems will hand over around 2.1 million documents produced in long-running US multidistrict litigation to Shine Lawyers in its class action against the Boston Scientific unit over its allegedly defective pelvic mesh products.
A former general manager of Sigma Healthcare is facing up to twenty years in prison after being charged with two counts of insider trading.
A Sydney-based law firm is conducting a class action investigation into medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific’s pelvic mesh products, adding to the growing list of companies facing lawsuit by women who claim they experienced pain and other adverse symptoms due to the implants.