California Attorney General Settlement
Update:
The Settlement Administrator has completed the administration and distributions of settlement funds from the class action settlements with Defendants Cephalon, Inc., Teva
Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (collectively, “Cephalon”), Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Mylan, Inc. (formerly known as
Mylan Laboratories, Inc.), and Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries, Ltd., as successor in interest to Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd. and Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
In addition to the Class Action Settlement, the California Attorney General has reached a separate
$69,000,000 settlement with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries Cephalon, Inc., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., and Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. "Teva Defendants") for alleged violations of
federal and California antitrust and consumer protection laws relating to the sale and pricing of Provigil® and
Nuvigil®, and generic versions of Provigil® (modafinil) (the “CAAG Settlement”).
(The) consumer portion of the CAAG Settlement will be $25,250,000.
California consumers who purchased Provigil®, Nuvigil®, and/or modafinil in any
state between June 24, 2006 through December 31, 2012 while they were residents of California may be able to
recover money for those purchases from the consumer portion of the CAAG Settlement.
The $65,877,600 Class Action Settlement and the $69,000,000 CAAG Settlement, are separate from, and in addition to, a previous settlement between certain
State Attorneys General (which did NOT include the California Attorney General) and the Cephalon Defendants.
Even if you received payments from the previous State Attorneys General Settlement, you may still be
eligible to receive a payment from the Class Action Settlement and/or the CAAG Settlement. Likewise, even if
you did not participate in the previous State Attorneys General Settlement, you may still participate in the
Class Action Settlement and/or the CAAG Settlement.
No one is claiming that Provigil®, modafinil or Nuvigil® is unsafe or ineffective.
*Eligible California consumers may be able to recover money not only from the Class Action Settlement, but also from the CAAG Settlement.
