Tag: McKesson Corp

Drug Company Probing Lawsuit Allegations at Union's Request

At a union’s request, a California-based drug wholesaler is looking into allegations in a 2016 lawsuit that the company flooded West Virginia with prescription pain pills.

McKesson Corp. spokeswoman Kristin Hunter told the Charleston Gazette-Mail that the San Francisco-based company appointed a committee to review issues raised by the Teamsters union, which has pension and benefit funds that invest in McKesson.

The committee has hired a Palo Alto, California, law firm. According to a May 11 letter to Teamsters Local 175 President Ken Hall in South Charleston, the law firm has agreed to meet with Teamsters officials.

According to a lawsuit filed by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, McKesson awarded bonuses and commissions to sales managers while “West Virginia was drowning” in millions of doses of addictive painkillers.

State Convinces Judge to Return McKesson Lawsuit to County

West Virginia’s attorney general has convinced a judge to move the state’s lawsuit against the nation’s largest wholesale drug distributor out of federal court and back to Boone County.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver ordered Monday that the state’s lawsuit against San Francisco-based McKesson Corp. be returned to Boone County Circuit Court.

The lawsuit says McKesson didn’t take steps to stop massive shipments of prescription painkillers to West Virginia.

McKesson wanted the case to be heard in federal court, where the law is typically more favorable to corporations. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office successfully argued that the lawsuit belongs back in Boone County.

The U.S. Justice Department finalized a $150 million settlement with McKesson after accusing it of failing to detect and report pharmacies’ suspicious orders.

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