Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on Tuesday announced an $18.5 million settlement of a lawsuit with Eli Lilly &
Co. over off-label marketing of the anti-psychotic drug Zyprexa.
The patent on impotence drug Viagra was partially rejected after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said it wasn’t different
enough from a Chinese herb known as Horny Goat Weed. The patent was key to an infringement suit Pfizer filed in 2002 against
Eli Lilly and Co. over its rival Cialis drug.
A federal judge is weighing whether to unseal search-warrant documents related to the federal investigation of businessman
Tim Durham and Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co. following a hearing Thursday in Youngstown, Ohio.
Kim Ebert is a veteran lawyer at the local office of the Atlanta-based firm, which has 470 lawyers in 37 locations nationwide.
Polymer Technology Systems Inc., a small Indianapolis-based maker of handheld blood monitors, has gone to court to fight
a competitor more than 100 times its size: Roche Diagnostics Corp.
Attorneys for the company and its parent firm denied any fraud occurred but said receivership nonetheless made sense.
Dallas-based CLST Holdings Inc. has struggled, and its shares trade for a mere 9 cents apiece.
A judge has entered a preliminary not guilty plea for a former Indiana University basketball player charged in connection
with an ex-business partner’s multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.
Lawyers for former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon are promising to expose financial information about NCAA’s licensing
contracts the NCAA would rather keep private.
Pharmacy giant CVS will pay $1.95 million and verify that all of its pharmacists are licensed in Indiana to settle a state
complaint that pharmacists with expired licenses dispensed prescriptions for several years at two of its drugstores.
Investors in Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co. shoved the company into bankruptcy court Monday morning, a move intended
to reduce the risk assets will disappear while securities fraud probes continue.
The 39-year-old Leary was being held Friday in the Monroe County Jail in Bloomington on charges out of Allen County.
The motion filed in an Ohio court is aimed at preventing funds from disappearing while investigations continue.
Harrison Epperly has made a fortune in his business career, but he’s also sparked controversy.
Mississippi will receive $18.5 million from Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. as part of a settlement over claims
the company promoted the anti-psychotic Zyprexa for ailments it was not federally approved to treat.
As Super Bowl approaches, companies unaffiliated with the Colts avoid becoming victims of the NFL’s strict trademark-enforcement
policies by supporting the team in generic fashion.
Plews Shadley Racher & Braun has finished a careful restoration of the Eden-Talbott House, continuing a strategy of shunning
glass and steel.
Federal prosecutors say the men were part of a scheme in which straw deals were set up to obtain inflated mortgages on more
than 100 Indianapolis houses.
Melvin Simon’s daughter, who’s seeking to remove her stepmother from overseeing a trust that holds her late father Melvin’s
fortune, says a corporate trustee is a better option than brother David Simon or family financial adviser Bruce Jacobson.
Deborah Simon is seeking
the removal of her stepmother and appointment of a corporate trustee while her lawsuit challenging changes
to the late billionaire’s will plays out. The move is the latest salvo in an escalating battle over
an estate that could be worth $2 billion.
