{"id":10503,"date":"2024-11-02T19:43:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T19:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/11\/02\/colorado-settles-with-two-drug-companies-for-49-million-in-antitrust-lawsuits\/137051\/"},"modified":"2024-11-02T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T19:43:52","slug":"colorado-settles-with-two-drug-companies-for-49-million-in-antitrust-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-settles-with-two-drug-companies-for-49-million-in-antitrust-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado settles with two drug companies for $49 million in antitrust lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-settles-with-two-drug-companies-for-49-million-in-antitrust-lawsuits\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/TDP-L-cell050724-cha-2409-560x372.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/colorado-settles-with-two-drug-companies-for-49-million-in-antitrust-lawsuits.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/colorado-settles-with-two-drug-companies-for-49-million-in-antitrust-lawsuits-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>Colorado will settle antitrust claims against two pharmaceutical companies for nearly $50 million as part of ongoing lawsuits that allege some of the country\u2019s largest generic prescription drug producers conspired to raise prices and reduce competition.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Phil Weiser announced the $10 million settlement with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and $39.1 million settlement with Apotex on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado joined three multistate lawsuits against dozens of companies and executives between 2016 and 2020. The lawsuits claimed manufacturers such as Pfizer and Teva Pharmaceuticals \u201cembarked on one of the most egregious and damaging price-fixing conspiracies in the history of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/11\/02\/colorado-drug-antitrust-lawsuit-heritage-apotex-settlement\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado will settle antitrust claims against two pharmaceutical companies for nearly $50 million as part of ongoing lawsuits that allege some of the country\u2019s largest generic prescription drug producers conspired to raise prices and reduce competition. Attorney General Phil Weiser announced the $10 million settlement with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and $39.1 million settlement with Apotex on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7042,2435,7177,9,1357,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[7045,2436,7180,3927],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}