Law360, New York (May 06, 2010, 7:02 PM ET) -- AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Johnson & Johnson are facing a lawsuit from the state of Utah, which is seeking to recoup payments that the state's Medicaid program handed out for off-label uses of the antipsychotics Seroquel and Risperdal and their side effects.
In a complaint filed Monday in the Third Judicial Court of Salt Lake County, Utah Attorney General Mark R. Shurtleff alleges AstraZeneca and J&J units Janssen Ortho LLC and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. misled state authorities, physicians and consumers by marketing the two drugs for...
Utah Sues Over Off-Label Seroquel, Risperdal
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