The Hill7d
Express Scripts sues FTC over report blasting pharmacy middlemen
Express Scripts, one of the country’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, sued the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Tuesday and demanded the agency retract a report saying the industry middlemen ...
FTC finds social media companies steal tons of data
FTC seeks clear information on how social media and streaming companies determine which specific ads and other content to ...
The Washington Post4d
FTC sues pharmacy insurance managers, alleging unfair drug prices
According to the FTC, the three largest PBMs — CVS Health’s Caremark, Cigna’s Express Scripts and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx — used their power to exclude cheaper insulin products from the ...
Deadline.com5d
FTC Chief Lina Khan Says Her Tough Antitrust Stance “Uncomfortable For Some People” As Election Looms
Kahn, who became FTC chief in 2021 at age 34, declined to comment on the presidential campaign, but told a New York conference, “I think it’s true that, over decades, enforcement has not ...
The Hill5d
FTC says social networks’ data privacy, safety policies are ‘woefully inadequate’
Top social media and video streaming companies are facing new scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which released a report Thursday morning accusing the platforms of vastly violating ...
JD Supra7d
The FTC Rule Banning Noncompetes Has Been Struck Down – For Now
Federal Trade Commission halted enactment of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Rule banning noncompete agreements throughout the country. The FTC previously issued a controversial Final ...
Orange County Register4d
FTC sues drug middlemen over manipulating the insulin market
The enforcement action is part of an escalating conflict between the FTC and the three pharmacy benefit managers that together control about 80% of prescriptions filled in the US. Since the ...
TechCrunch4d
FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations
A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn’t really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who’s followed the space.
UPI4d
FTC sues prescription drug middlemen, alleging they conspired over high insulin costs
The FTC lawsuit contends Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx engaged "in anticompetitive and unfair rebating practices," leading to the artificial price inflation as well as impairing access ...
Yahoo Finance6d
Inside closing arguments from the FTC’s challenge to Kroger-Albertsons merger
Recommended Reading Curtain rises on Kroger and Albertsons’ court fight with the FTC PORTLAND, Oregon — The court case that could have a major impact on how groceries are sold in the U.S. is ...
STAT7d
Express Scripts sues FTC over a ‘biased’ report about pharmacy benefit managers
The lawsuit also alleged the FTC “followed prejudice and politics, not evidence or sound economics, and wrongly concluded that PBMs inflate drug costs and harm independent pharmacies.” ...