Company: PRGO
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001585364-25-000156
Chunk: 206

Company: PERRIGO Co plc
Filing Date: 2025-11-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 15
Chunk 206
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 the sale of generic drugs by the Company’s former Rx business. The complaints have been filed by putative classes of direct purchasers, end payors, and indirect resellers, as well as individual direct and indirect purchasers that have opted out of the putative classes, including pharmacies, health insurers, hospitals, self-insured employers, retail customers and certain cities and counties. The complaints allege a conspiracy to fix, maintain, stabilize, and/or raise prices, rig bids, and allocate markets or customers for various generic drugs in violation of federal and state antitrust and consumer protection laws.While most of the class complaints involve alleged single-drug conspiracies, the three putative classes and many of the opt out plaintiffs have each filed an over-arching conspiracy complaint alleging that Perrigo and other manufacturers (and some individuals) entered into an “overarching conspiracy” that involved allocating customers, rigging bids, and raising, maintaining, and fixing prices for various products. The vast majority of the lawsuits described in this section have been consolidated in the In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation multidistrict litigation ("MDL") MDL No. 2724 (United States District Court for Eastern District of Pennsylvania). The Court designated three sets of cases to proceed as the first phase of "bellwethers," meaning that they will proceed on a more expedited basis than the other cases in the MDL. Those cases are (a) class actions alleging "single drug" conspiracies involving Clobetasol and Clomipramine; and (b) the third Complaint filed by the State Attorneys General alleging an overarching conspiracy concerning various topical products (described below). Perrigo was initially named as a defendant in the Clobetasol class bellwether cases, but the classes voluntarily dismissed their claims against Perrigo relating to “single drug” conspiracies involving Clobetasol in May 2023. Discovery closed in the first phase of bellwether cases on October 2, 2023. Summary judgment motions in the State bellwether case were filed in September 2024, and briefing on those motions is complete. The court certified classes of direct and “end-user” customers of the products at issue on March 7, 2025. The Third Circuit accepted an appeal of the class certification decisions in the bellwether cases on June 17, 2025. All district court proceedings in those cases are stayed pending resolution of that appeal.On October 15, 2024, the Court selected the first multi-drug