The Philadelphia Inquirer
By Rob Waters, Bloomberg News
Unsealed documents in a whistle-blower lawsuit allege that drugmaker Janssen Pharmaceutica, of Titusville, N.J., misled Texas officials about an antipsychotic drug to increase prescriptions.
The lawsuit claims that Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, of New Brunswick, N.J., caused Texas to overspend last year on Risperdal, a top-selling schizophrenia drug.
The [...]
Entries from December 2006
December 29, 2006
Suit: Janssen Pharmaceutica misled Texas officials on drug
December 29, 2006
Janssen Pharmaceutica misled Government officials
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Suit: Janssen Pharmaceutica misled Texas officials on drug
By: Rob Waters, Bloomberg News
Unsealed documents in a whistle-blower lawsuit allege that drugmaker Janssen Pharmaceutica, of Titusville, N.J., misled Texas officials about an antipsychotic drug to increase prescriptions.
The lawsuit claims that Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, of New Brunswick, N.J., caused Texas to overspend [...]
December 20, 2006
Lawsuit says Texas was duped on drug
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
By MARK HORVIT
A pharmaceutical company duped the state of Texas into spending millions of dollars on expensive psychiatric drugs and made improper payments to at least one state official, according to a lawsuit filed by a whistle-blower and joined by the Texas attorney general’s office.
At the heart of the suit is a controversial [...]