A coalition of 51 attorneys general in the US filed an antitrust complaint in federal court alleging that key individual executives and manufacturers of dermatological claim generic drugs engaged in a widespread conspiracy to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition for generic drugs sold across the country, reported Bloomberg.
The antitrust complaint filed by AGs including New York’s Letitia James named as defendants 26 generic, dermatological drug manufacturers and 10 individual executives at these companies.
The complaint alleges broad, coordinated, and systematic antitrust violations, price-fixing, market allocating, and the rigging of bids for more than 80 different topical, generic drugs.
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