New Hampshire joins coalition of 50 states and territories in ongoing antitrust price-fixing investigation

CONCORD — Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald announced that New Hampshire has joined 50 states and territories in filing the third lawsuit against 26 corporate defendants stemming from the ongoing antitrust investigation into an alleged widespread conspiracy by generic drug manufacturers to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade for generic drugs sold across the United States.

This new complaint focuses on more than 80 topical generic drugs that account for billions of dollars of sales in the United States.