Top executives at the Arizona-based drug company Insys Therapeutics bribed doctors into prescribing an addictive opioid spray containing fentanyl, deceiving insurers into paying for it, federal prosecutors in Boston claimed Thursday. Insys founder and majority owner...
Month: April 2019
DHMC clinic in Manchester, doctor accused of malpractice in heart attack death go on trial
MANCHESTER — A medical malpractice trial that started Monday in Hillsborough County Superior Court hinges on whether an ambulance should have turned on its lights and sirens. If Dr. Jennifer T. Jones, the chief of internal medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical...
In closing argument, prosecution says bribes, brazen quest for profit fueled Insys painkiller sales
Five former Insys Therapeutics executives paid unscrupulous physicians millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a powerful opioid painkiller to patients who shouldn’t have gotten it — and sometimes got addicted — in a scheme of “brazen audacity,” a government lawyer...