[co-author: Ashley Monzel]
A federal court recently allowed a plaintiff’s state law negligence claim, which utilized the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) and federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”) as legal support to survive a motion for summary judgment. In Post v. AmerisourceBergen Corporation, No. 1:19-CV-73 (N.D.W. Va. Nov. 2, 2020), Plaintiff, Frances G. Post, filed suit against Defendants, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, US Bioservices Corporation, I.g.G. of America, Inc., and HIS Acquisition XXX, Inc., alleging negligence claims arising from Plaintiff’s purchase of immunoglobulin (“IVIG”). Facing a motion to dismiss, the court allowed the Plaintiff to utilize these federal fraud and abuse laws to support a state law cause of action.