Author: Erin Elizabeth

A coalition of attorneys general from 43 states and Puerto Rico filed a 510-page lawsuit last week at a U.S. District Court in Connecticut, claiming that “generic drug manufacturers conspired to fix prices and markets of 114 drugs for both minor infections and chronic diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes and HIV.”1 The suit alleges that Teva, Pfizer, Mylan, and 17 other pharmaceutical companies (see below) worked together to create a “fair share” of the generic drug market and thereby avoid price-lowering competition. (Actavis Pharma, Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Apotex, Aurobindo Pharma U.S.A., Breckenridge Pharmaceutical, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Greenstone, Lannett Company, Lupin...

For the last four years, Bonnie Kimball has been a lunch room attendant at a New Hampshire high school. But no more. She was recently let go for letting a student take food without paying. That’s correct, she was fired by the district manager of Café Services for “theft.” FYI: the student she helped out paid his $8 lunch tab the next morning. Also, it was $8 and a student didn’t go hungry. Although school officials and the food service company offered to rehire her, Kimball refused to go back saying, “they’re not doing it for me, they are...