Walgreen’s, Stephen L. LaFrance Holdings and members of the USA Drug pharmacy chain have agreed to pay $16 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit regarding the alleged overbilling of government health programs, attorneys from Vogel, Slade & Goldstein and Susman Godfrey announced this week.
Vogel, Slade & Goldstein partner of a boutique Washington, D.C.-based firm, Shelley Slade, and Susman Godfrey’s Bill Carmody, a partner based in New York, successfully led the whistleblower lawsuit on behalf of their client, James D. Strauser, a pharmacist who worked at USA Drug, a regional pharmacy chain acquired by Walgreen’s. The case is U.S. ex rel. Strauser, et al. v. Stephen L. LaFrance Holdings Co., et al.
This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.
To view this content, please continue to their sites.
Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now
LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.
For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]
