All the headlines from our Drugs Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 6 2005 // ILLINOISGarrett Bonham, 29, seeks more than $75,000 in a lawsuit filed last month for injuries sustained in his 10 years of employment as a performing knight at the Schaumburg, Ill., Medieval Times, according to the...
Nov 4 2005 // Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe filed suit against Peoples Benefit Services Inc., a company that claims to offer discounts on prescription drugs, the AG’s office announced.Based in Pennsylvania, Peoples Benefit...
Nov 1 2005 // The owner of the Park City Pharmacy at The Clinic in Utah has been arrested on suspicion of fraudulently billing an insurance company for drugs that never were prescribed.Thomas Evan Strebel, 60, was arrested for...
Oct 18 2005 // Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced that the Oklahoma Insurance Department will issue expedited temporary licenses to volunteers who are assisting senior citizens to enroll in the new Medicare Part D Prescription...
Sep 29 2005 // Attorney General Charlie Crist has warned Florida seniors to be on the lookout for con artists who may try to take advantage of consumers as they shop for new Medicare prescription drug coverage plans. As of Oct. 1,...
Sep 26 2005 // Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans Inc. has been selected by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to provide prescription drug plan coverage to Medicare beneficiaries in South Carolina, Mississippi and...
Sep 23 2005 // A former chief scientist of Merck & Co. had concerns about the cardiovascular safety of painkiller Vioxx years before the company pulled it off the market, according to a videotaped deposition played during a Vioxx...
Sep 22 2005 // GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $150 million to settle claims it overcharged the government for two anti-nausea drugs, and prosecutors say they’re looking into 150 cases of drug price fraud.The Glaxo settlement is the...
Sep 19 2005 // UTAHUTAH SUPREME COURT RULES WCF ASSETS NOT OWNED BY STATE: The Utah Supreme Court has declared that Workers Com-pensation Fund’s assets are owned by policyholders, not the state. The ruling in favor of WCF settles...
Sep 15 2005 // A product liability trial focused on whether the painkiller Vioxx caused a man’s heart attack started Wednesday, with his lawyer telling jurors the drug’s maker put profits over safety. Merck & Co., the...
Sep 7 2005 // A bill aimed at closing a loophole in California’s workers’ compensation laws that allows doctors to profit from big markups on prescription drugs they sell to their patients appears has died in the current...
Sep 5 2005 // NAMIC ENCOURAGES RATE MODERNIZATION IN HAWAII: The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has told a Hawaii legislative committee that passing rate modernization laws would benefit state commerce and insurance...
Sep 5 2005 // Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.’s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has been turned down by the judge presiding over the case.Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee, who is...
Sep 5 2005 // The Arizona Supreme Court has invalidated what the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America believes was a valuable law designed to help provide drug and alcohol-free working environments, according to PCI...
Sep 5 2005 // Beleaguered drug maker Merck & Co.’s request to postpone the next trial over its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx has been turned down by the judge presiding over the case.Superior Court Judge Carol E. Higbee, who is...
Aug 18 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the state Supreme Court in David C. Grammatica v. Arizona Industrial Commission has invalidated what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to...
Aug 11 2005 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is disappointed that the state Supreme Court has invalided what PCI believed was a valuable law designed to help provide drug and alcohol-free working environments in...
Jul 21 2005 // A local jury in San Antonio, Texas, on July 1 awarded $7.4 million in actual damages in a wrongful death lawsuit against the health maintenance organization Humana Health Plan of Texas Inc., a physician, and his physicians...
Jul 15 2005 // First lady Nancy Freudenthal says a law allowing insurance companies to withhold coverage for injuries resulting from drug or alcohol use should be repealed.Because of the law, she said, doctors and nurses are less likely...
Jul 4 2005 // TRG Officials Must Pay $2.5 M Carmelo Zanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills,...