Stock Drop Claims Survive Dismissal Motion In Securities Class Action

Mealey's (August 2, 2017, 7:58 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on July 28 substantially denied dismissal of claims in a securities class action lawsuit against a specialty pharmaceutical company and certain of its current and former executive officers and directors, ruling that a shareholder has shown that the defendants violated federal securities laws by concealing a significant downsizing of its salesforce for one of its drugs, as well as the exclusion of the drug from the formularies of several of the nation’s largest health insurers (Andrew Meyer v. Concordia International Corp., et al., No. 16-6467, S.D. N.Y., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 119436)....