( May 7, 2025, 16:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Class plaintiffs requested a US judge to preliminary approve a settlement with Hikma, the last defendant in litigation that accused pharmaceutical companies of engaging in an anticompetitive scheme to delay entry of a generic version of narcolepsy drug Xyrem. In a motion for preliminary approval of the class-action settlement with Hikma, the class plaintiffs said the settlement "provides for a cash settlement fund totaling $50,000,000.00, which is in addition to the proposed cash settlement with Jazz [Pharmaceuticals] that is presently before this Court pending preliminary approval, and is set to be heard on May 15." Motion for preliminary approval attached. ...
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