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CVS Settles for $18.2M Over California False Claims Act Violations
Nov 18 2025 // CVS Pharmacy Inc. has settled alleged violations of the California False Claims Act with California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the United States Department of Justice. The settlement agreement requires CVS to pay $18.2...
CVS Not Covered by Insurance for Opioid Lawsuits, Delaware Supreme Court Rules
Aug 19 2025 // CVS Health is not entitled to coverage from insurers, including AIG and Chubb, against thousands of lawsuits over its role in the nation’s opioid crisis, Delaware’s highest court ruled on Monday. The Delaware...
Louisiana Attorney General Sues CVS for Deceptive Practices
Jun 25 2025 // Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said on Tuesday she had filed three separate lawsuits against CVS CVS.N for unfair, deceptive and unlawful practices “that have harmed Louisiana patients, independent...
CVS, Express Scripts Sue to Block Arkansas Law Restricting Pharmacy Benefit Managers
May 30 2025 // CVS and Express Scripts asked a federal judge on Thursday to block a law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from owning or operating pharmacies in Arkansas, challenging the first such restriction enacted by a state. The...
FTC Says CVS, Cigna and UnitedHealth Abuse Middleman Role
Jan 14 2025 // Units of CVS Health Corp., Cigna Group and UnitedHealth Group Inc. charged significantly more than the national average acquisition cost for dozens of specialty generic drugs, bringing in more than $7.3 billion in excess...
CVS Accused of Illegal Opioid Dispensing in Whistleblower Suit
Dec 19 2024 // CVS Health Corp. pharmacies illegally dispensed controlled substances including opioids, fueling an overdose crisis as short-staffed stores ignored red flags, the US Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit unsealed...
Nevada Secures $152M Opioid Settlement With Pharmacy Chain CVS
May 18 2023 // Nevada and pharmacy chain CVS have reached a nearly $152 million settlement to be paid over the next decade to end a lawsuit over opioid claims, state Attorney General Aaron Ford announced. “CVS negotiated in good...
Massachusetts AG Reports $6.15M Settlement With CVS Over Workers’ Comp Drugs
May 16 2023 // Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s office reports it has reached a $6.15 million settlement with CVS Pharmacy, Inc. to resolve allegations of overcharging for prescriptions for workers’...
Texas to Receive $654M in Opioid Funds From CVS, Walgreens
Jan 24 2023 // Texas Attorney General Paxton announced that the state is joining finalized opioid agreements with CVS and Walgreens totaling $10.7 billion nationally, with CVS paying $5 billion and Walgreens paying $5.7 billion. Texas...
CVS, Walgreens and Walmart to Pay $13.8B to Settle U.S. Opioid Claims: Sources
Nov 2 2022 // CVS Health Corp, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc. have tentatively agreed to pay about $13.8 billion to resolve thousands of U.S. state and local government lawsuits accusing the chains of mishandling opioid...
Walmart, CVS Agree to Settle West Virginia Opioid Suit for $147 Million
Sep 22 2022 // Walmart and CVS Pharmacy have settled with the state of West Virginia for a combined total of $147 million in a lawsuit over the companies’ roles in contributing to the oversupply of prescription drugs that fueled...
Nurse Practitioner Claims CVS Fired Her Over Her Abortion Stance
Sep 2 2022 // A nurse practitioner from northern Virginia sued CVS Health on Wednesday, saying she was fired for refusing to provide abortion-inducing drugs at its MinuteClinic medical facilities. In the lawsuit, Paige Casey said CVS...
Walmart, CVS, Walgreens Ordered to Pay $650 Million Over Ohio Opioid Sales
Aug 18 2022 // Walmart Inc., CVS Health Corp. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. were ordered to pay a total of $650 million over their failure to properly monitor opioid prescriptions in Ohio, in the drug industry’s latest setback...
Florida Reaches $878M Opioid Settlements With CVS, Teva, Others
Mar 31 2022 // Florida has reached more than $878 million in settlements with CVS Health Corp and three drug companies to resolve claims and avert a trial next month over their roles in fueling an opioid epidemic in the third most...
CVS, Walgreens, Walmart to Make Closing Arguments in Ohio Opioid Trial
Nov 15 2021 // A jury is set to hear closing arguments on Monday in a trial in federal court in Cleveland focused on claims by two counties in Ohio that three major retail pharmacy chains – CVS, Walgreens and Walmart – fueled...
Arizona High Court Rejects Major Part of Suit Against CVS
Sep 3 2021 // An Arizona Supreme Court ruling rejects a major part of a Tucson hospital’s lawsuit accusing a pharmacy chain of negligence and seeking compensation for care provided to opioid-addicted patients. The justices ruled...
Kentucky Sues CVS Health, Accusing Chain of ‘Fueling’ the State’s Opioid Crisis
Jun 7 2021 // Kentucky’s attorney general last week sued CVS Health, accusing its pharmacy chain of flooding the state with prescription opioids that contributed to the state’s addiction woes. Attorney General Daniel Cameron...
Walgreens, CVS Lead COVID-19 Vaccination Drive for Nursing Homes
Dec 21 2020 // The U.S. government and two of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains kick off a nationwide campaign to vaccinate nursing home residents against COVID-19 on Monday, a week after the first vaccines authorized in the...
Inside Big Pharma’s Stealth War on Drug Price Watchdog: Reuters Special Report
Sep 11 2020 // As evidence grew this spring that the drug remdesivir was helping COVID-19 patients, some Wall Street investors bet on analysts’ estimates that its maker, Gilead Sciences Inc., could charge up to $10,000 for the...
West Virginia AG Sues Walmart, CVS Over State Flooding of Opioids
Aug 21 2020 // West Virginia’s attorney general sued Walmart and drugstore chain CVS on Tuesday, saying they failed to monitor and report suspicious orders of prescription painkillers to their retail pharmacies in a state ravaged...
