November 06, 2019
A former Abbott Laboratories medical manager lost a five-year legal battle in which she accused her former employer of retaliation after she refused to go along with a supposedly illegal marketing scheme when a federal judge ruled Wednesday that her dismissal is not tied to any protected activity.
May 09, 2019
A former Abbott Laboratories Inc. researcher who has doggedly pursued claims against her former employer for more than four years cannot file a new suit that would in effect duplicate one she is already pursuing, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday.
October 02, 2018
A former medical science liaison for Abbott Laboratories Inc. refuses to accept that her False Claims Act allegations against Abbott died on anything other than "erroneous" case law, asking a Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday to pause her case indefinitely until new precedent supports her views.
March 15, 2018
Abbott Laboratories Inc. on Thursday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to send its legal bill to an ex-employee who brought back a previously dismissed False Claims Act lawsuit with claims the pharmaceutical company says were already thrown out.
April 06, 2015
Abbott Laboratories Inc. on Friday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to dismiss a False Claims Act and retaliation suit, saying it's impossible a false claim was submitted for its coronary artery disease device because it's not yet commercially available.
December 16, 2014
A False Claims Act suit unsealed in Massachusetts federal court on Monday accuses Abbott Laboratories Inc. of retaliating against a former medical manager after her refusal to participate in a supposedly illegal marketing scheme that affected Medicare and Medicaid payments.