Indivior has agreed to pay $385 million to settle a class action lawsuit from drug wholesalers who claim that the drugmaker illegally stifled competition in order to maintain a monopoly on the opioid addiction medication Suboxone, according to Reuters. The company has already paid more than $130 million in settlements with dozens of U.S. states and health plans who sued after Indivior reformulated Suboxone as a dissolvable oral film and extended its patent past its original 2009 expiration date.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.