Press Releases: 2017

ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr today announced that Mylan, a pharmaceutical company, has paid more than $7 million to the state of Georgia to resolve allegations that it knowingly underpaid rebates owed to the Medicaid program for EpiPens dispensed to Georgia Medicaid members.

ATLANTA, GA - Attorney General Chris Carr today announced a $220 million settlement with Deutsche Bank for fraudulent conduct involving the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate that affects financial instruments worth trillions of dollars and has a

ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced today that his investigation into the practices of Alarm Protection Georgia, LLC and Alder Holdings, LLC has ended in a $500,000 Judgment prohibiting the companies from future unfair and deceptive practices in connection with their door-to-door

ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr today joined with a bipartisan group of attorneys general from across the country in letters to 15 health care companies that provide pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services, encouraging the companies to implement programs to mitigate prescription opio

ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr is encouraging all Georgians to join the Office of the Attorney General in National Drug Take Back Day efforts. The nationwide event will take place next Saturday, October 28, 2017.

ATLANTA, GA - Attorney General Chris Carr today announced a $120 million settlement with General Motors Company (GM) over allegations that GM concealed safety issues concerning ignition-switch-related defects in the company’s vehicles.

ATLANTA, GA –Attorney General Chris Carr is warning consumers about a new cybersecurity threat, Key Reinstallation Attacks or “KRACK.” You may have read

ATLANTA, GA –Attorney General Chris Carr today announced that on Monday, October 2, 2017, Defendant Casandra Jones plead guilty, midway through trial, to one count of Medicaid Fraud (O.C.G.A. § 49-4-146.1(b)), one felony count of Conspiracy to Defraud the State (O.C.G.A.

ATLANTA, GA - Attorney General Chris Carr is supporting National Cyber Security Awareness Month this October, an annual month-long collaborative effort launched in 2004 by the United States Department of Homeland Security a

ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr today announced the creation of a Statewide Opioid Task Force, providing an infrastructure of communication between organizations in the public, private and non-profit sectors that are combating and are impacted by this critical issue.