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Pharmacy groups face antitrust battle for consumer campaign

Recent court ruling leads to warning from attorneys that associations should be mindful when bringing various competitors togetherAn effort by associations to warn consumers against using certain online pharmacies has landed them in court, with a federal judge recently ruling that an antitrust lawsuit brought against the groups could move forward.The company PharmacyChecker.com sued the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies and two other pharmacy industry consumer education programs in 2019 for publicly listing its website as a potentially unsafe site and for taking other actions to undermine its credibility. The company… Read More