380 results found
Smart & Biggar | Canada | 10 Apr 2019
Costco Pharmacies receives C$7.25 million penalty for accepting drug rebates
The Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care recently announced that CWC Pharmacies (Ontario) Ltd (Costco Pharmacies), a subsidiary of Costco, has been ordered to pay an administrative monetary penalty of C$7.25 million for accepting payments from certain generic manufacturers which had violated the prohibition on drug rebates.
Breazeale Sachse & Wilson LLP | USA | 25 Feb 2019
Dress Code/Personal Appearance- What Can Employers Regulate?
Very generally speaking, federal law permits employers to regulate employee appearance. However, employers should be mindful that, with increasing…
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | USA | 14 Nov 2018
Split Ninth Circuit Cements Circuit Split on Admissibility of Class Certification Evidence
Takeaway: A fractured Ninth Circuit has rejected the opportunity to re-visit a panel decision allowing inadmissible evidence to be considered in…
Arent Fox LLP | USA | 11 Oct 2018
Costco Pays $3.85 Million Civil Penalty for Failure to Report Defective Trash Cans
CPSC announced that Costco Wholesale, Corp., of Issaquah, WA, had agreed to pay a $3.85 million civil penalty for failing to report to the Commission…
Mintz | USA | 5 Oct 2018
Costco Agrees to $3.85 Million Civil Penalty for Failure to Report, Accepted by Unanimous Commission Vote
The Commission alleged that between December 2013 and May 2015, Costco sold approximately 367,000 EKO Sensible Eco Living Trash Cans at its stores…
Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP | USA | 26 Sep 2018
Seventh Circuit Says Employer Liable for Customer Stalking Employee
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees from workplace harassment. As most employers know, these protections apply not only to…
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP | USA | 11 Jul 2018
The Success of the Pizza Autosaucer®…and the patents that made it possible
Automatic Bar Controls, Inc.'s (ABC) Autosaucer® recently made the news again when it was described as "the secret to Costco's delicious pizza…
Smart & Biggar | Canada | 23 May 2018
Costco pharmacy directors fined for professional misconduct
The discipline committee of the Ontario College of Pharmacists recently found that two directors of Costco pharmacies had committed acts of professional misconduct by soliciting C$1,266,000 in payments relating to advertising which would reasonably be regarded as rebates for the purchase of interchangeable drug products.
Smart & Biggar | Canada | 3 Apr 2018
Costco pharmacy directors fined for professional misconduct for acceptance of over $1.2M in rebates
On March 14, 2018, the Discipline Committee of the Ontario College of Pharmacists found that two directors of Costco pharmacies committed acts of…
Baker & Hostetler LLP | USA | 16 Mar 2018
Does Costco Fish Oil Stink?
Consumer accuses retail giant of diluting its product...
