(April 2, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on March 31 denied a motion by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. for summary judgment in an 18-year-old whistleblower lawsuit accusing it of a decades-long scheme of paying kickbacks to doctors in exchange for prescribing the defendants’ drugs (United States ex rel. Oswald Bilotta v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, No. 11-72, S.D. N.Y.)....