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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Reckitt Benckiser Group
Current Parent Company: Reckitt Benckiser
Penalty: $400,000,000
Year: 2019
Date: November 7, 2019
Offense Group: government-contracting-related offenses
Primary Offense: False Claims Act and related
Secondary Offense: opioid crisis litigation
Mega-Scandal: Opioid Crisis
Violation Description: Reckitt Benckiser agreed to pay $400 million to state governments to resolve litigation involving improper marketing of the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone. This was part of a larger $1.3 billion criminal and civil settlement also involving the federal government; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: household and personal care products
Specific Industry of Current Parent: personal care products
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.