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N.Y. Sues Drug Firms
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Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Davide Dukcevich, 02.13.03, 5:16 PM ET
NEW YORK - In the news this hour, the state of New York
has brought a lawsuit against GlaxoSmithKline (nyse: GSX - news - people
) and Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ), alleging the pharmaceutical
giants illegally inflated the price of prescription drugs.
In the lawsuit,
State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is charging the firms with consumer
fraud, commercial bribery and making false statements to government health
plans.
Spitzer said those practices resulted in massive overpayments
by those health plans. A third drugmaker, Aventis Pharmaceuticals (nyse:
AVE - news - people ), received a pre-litigation notice.
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