For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today called on Congress to take action on copycat THC edibles. These products are designed to look like popular snack items popular with kids and have increased accidental THC consumption in children. Since January 2021, the National Poison […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 22, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today reached a $1.25 million multistate settlement with Florida-based Carnival Cruise Line stemming from a 2019 data breach that involved the personal information of approximately 180,000 Carnival employees and customers, including 3,139 North Carolinians. Attorney General Stein was […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, June 17, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that he reached a $233,707,865.18 settlement to resolve allegations that drug company Mallinckrodt ARD, LLC (formerly known as Questcor Pharmaceuticals) knowingly underpaid Medicaid drug rebates for its drug H.P. Acthar Gel (Acthar). North Carolina will receive […]
For Immediate Release: Friday, June 10, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reject marketing authorization for e-cigarettes containing synthetic nicotine and all non-tobacco synthetic nicotine products, which are currently being sold without regulatory constraints on their contents, manufacturing, health effects […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 9, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education announced it would discharge all remaining federal student loans for students who attended any college run by Corinthian Colleges. In North Carolina, 12,470 borrowers will receive a total of […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 2, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein announced that North Carolina’s local governments began receiving the first payments this week from the $26 billion national opioid agreement with the nation’s three major drug distributors (Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen) and Johnson & Johnson. The state has […]
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that Healthkeeperz, Inc., a Pembroke behavioral health care provider, will pay $2.1 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by billing claims that were not reimbursable to Medicaid programs. “When health […]
For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 26, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein won a permanent ban prohibiting Michael Grinnell of California and his businesses, Amstar Services and Home Relief Services, from offering debt relief, debt settlement, foreclosure assistance, and mortgage loan modification services to North Carolinians. “This defendant took advantage […]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 North Carolina will receive more than $380,000 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today announced that North Carolina will receive $380,952.61 as part of a $19.2 million multistate settlement with Ford Motor Company over claims that Ford falsely advertised the real-world fuel economy of […]
For Immediate Release: Monday, May 23, 2022 Contact: Nazneen Ahmed (919) 716-0060 (RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein is pleased to announce that he has named fellowship opportunities in the Attorney General’s office the Walter E. Dellinger III Memorial Fellowship Program. The program will host two fellows at the North Carolina Department of Justice – one […]