Kirby McInerney Announces Settlement of a False Claims Act Whistleblower Suit against Compounding Pharmacy FPR Specialty Pharmacy and Its Owners
Retrieved on:
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Kirby McInerney LLP has settled a significant False Claims Act case on behalf of a whistleblower client against a compounding pharmacy FPR Specialty Pharmacy, its owners Christopher Casey and Billy Rue, and affiliated business Mead Square Pharmacy, all from the Rochester, New York area.
Key Points:
- Kirby McInerney LLP has settled a significant False Claims Act case on behalf of a whistleblower client against a compounding pharmacy FPR Specialty Pharmacy, its owners Christopher Casey and Billy Rue, and affiliated business Mead Square Pharmacy, all from the Rochester, New York area.
- First, they shipped their pain cream to states in which they did not have licenses to practice as a pharmacy.
- When they eventually applied for pharmacy licenses, they misled the state pharmacy boards about their prior unlicensed sales and obscured Caseys prior disqualifying personal conduct.
- On the whistleblowers behalf, Kirby McInerney filed a qui tam action in 2016 under the False Claims Act against Casey, Rue, FPR Specialty Pharmacy, and Mead Square Pharmacy.