June 25, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge raised questions on Friday over whether a whistleblower lawsuit accusing Gilead Sciences Inc. of paying kickbacks to doctors to help boost prescriptions of its Hepatitis C drugs barred a second suit filed months later raising similar allegations about two different drugs.
June 15, 2021
Gilead Sciences Inc. argued on Monday that two ex-employees had no hard proof to back up claims that the company used sham speakership and advisory programs to pay illegal kickbacks to doctors who wrote a high volume of prescriptions for its hepatitis B drugs.
June 01, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge said during a hearing Tuesday that potential jurors in a False Claims Act case against Gilead Sciences Inc. would have to be told about the tens of thousands of text messages that, inadvertently or not, were deleted from a whistleblower's cellphones.
May 27, 2021
After being repeatedly targeted over missing text messages sought by Gilead Science Inc. during discovery, a pair of whistleblowers in a case against the drugmaker in Pennsylvania federal court have launched a sanctions bid of their own alleging that the company failed to maintain messages on employee cellphones.
May 18, 2021
Gilead Sciences Inc. has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to rethink his decision that an ex-employee hadn't intentionally destroyed evidence when tens of thousands of text messages sought as part of a whistleblower case were lost on an old cellphone.
April 22, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge agreed on Thursday to sanction a former Gilead Sciences Inc. employee and his lawyers for failing to take proper steps to preserve text messages at issue in a whistleblower case they're pursuing against the company over alleged kickbacks paid to doctors.