Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001551152-25-000049
Chunk: 54

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 54
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, counties, cities, other municipal entities, Native American tribes, union trust funds and other third-party payors, private hospitals and personal injury claimants, generally seek compensatory and punitive damages. Of these approximately 380 lawsuits, approximately 20 of them are brought by states, counties, cities and other municipal entities, approximately 5 of which are in the process of being dismissed pursuant to the previously announced settlement. In March 2023, AbbVie Inc. filed a petition in the United States Tax Court, AbbVie Inc. and Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The petition disputed the Commissioner of Internal Revenue determination concerning a $572 million income tax benefit recorded in 2014 related to a payment made to a third party for the termination of a proposed business combination. In June 2025, the United States Tax Court granted AbbVie’s motion for summary judgment and denied the Commissioner of Internal Revenue’s cross-motion for summary judgment. The United States Tax Court ordered and decided that there is no deficiency in income tax due from AbbVie for the tax year 2014. In September 2025, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue appealed this decision. Product Liability and General LitigationIn April 2023, a putative class action lawsuit, Camargo v. AbbVie Inc., was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of Humira patients who paid for Humira based on its list price or who, after losing insurance coverage, discontinued Humira because they could not pay based on its list price, alleging that Humira’s list price is excessive in violation of multiple states’ unfair and deceptive trade practices statutes. The plaintiff generally seeks monetary damages, injunctive relief and attorneys’ fees.

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Lawsuits are pending against various Allergan entities in the United States and other countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, South Korea and the Netherlands, in which plaintiffs generally allege that they developed, or may develop, breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) or other injuries from Allergan’s Biocell® textured breast implants, which were voluntarily withdrawn from worldwide markets in 2019. Approximately 145 ALCL lawsuits and 1,300 other lawsuits are coordinated for pre-trial purposes in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey under the MDL rules as In re: Allergan Biocell Textured Breast Implant Product Liability Litigation, MD