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Trial Court awards $38.2 million to the State of Mississippi in Beasley Allen Medicaid fraud lawsuit

| September 2, 2011
MONTGOMERY, ALA. (September 2, 2011) – Today Judge Thomas L. Zebert found in favor of the State of Mississippi in its case against pharmaceutical company Sandoz, Inc. in the Chancery Court of Rankin County, Mississippi, and awarded a total verdict of $38,191, 427.00. The case, Mississippi Medicaid Pharmaceutical Average Wholesale Price Litigation (Master Docket No. 65586-65632, 66312, 66313, 66314) involves allegations that Sandoz caused to be published inflated “Average Wholesale Prices” (AWPs) for the drugs manufactured by Sandoz, which resulted in the Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) reimbursing pharmacies at an inflated price, all allegedly in violation of the Mississippi Consumer Protection Act; the Mississippi Medicaid Fraud Control act and common law fraud. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood authorized the filing of these lawsuits against the pharmaceutical companies and Beasley Allen attorneys W. Daniel “Dee” Miles, III and Clay Barnett, along with former Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove from Copeland, Cook, Taylor and Bush tried the three-week trial in April.

Hawaii sues drug wholesaler and drug data publisher for inflated average wholesale prices

State of Hawaii | November 10, 2010

HONOLULU - Attorney General Mark Bennett announced today that the State of Hawai'i has filed a complaint against McKesson Corporation and First DataBank, Inc., as part of an ongoing effort to recover for what the State believes were prescription drug overcharges to the State.  The State's previous related lawsuit recovered (in total) more than $82 million from prescription drug manufacturers.

Beasley Allen files Medicaid Fraud lawsuit on behalf of State of Louisiana

The Times-Picayune | November 2, 2010

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has filed a lawsuit in East Baton Rouge Parish District Court alleging that 18 drug companies have ripped off state taxpayers by overcharging the Medicaid program. The suit says that the companies misreported their drug prices in a deliberate effort to increase the payments they receive from the Louisiana Medicaid system. Block Law Firm of Thibodaux and Beasley, Allen, Crow Methvin, Portis & Miles of Montgomery, Ala., signed the suit, along with Caldwell. Beasley Allen is among the nation's leading plaintiffs firms. Attorneys working on this case from Beasley Allen are W. Daniel Miles, III, head of the firm's Consumer Fraud Section, Roman Shaul, and Alison Douillard.