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Insurers can’t sue over ‘off-label’ Seroquel scripts (access required)

By: Pat Murphy
Published: March 14, 2011

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Health insurance plans cannot sue a pharmaceutical company to recover the cost of prescriptions written for the "off-label" use of its anti-psychotic drug, the 11th Circuit has ruled in affirming dismissals. The case consolidated a number of class actions against AstraZeneca brought by insurers and union health funds seeking to recover the cost of certain prescriptions ...
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