Penalty Amount
$49,100,000
Attorney General William Tong announced settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex totaling $49.1 million to resolve allegations of price-fixing conspiracies for generic prescription drugs. The companies agreed to cooperate in ongoing multistate litigation and implement internal reforms to ensure fair competition.
The settlements require Heritage Pharmaceuticals to pay $10 million and Apotex to pay $39.1 million. Both companies must cooperate with the ongoing multistate litigation and adopt internal reforms to comply with antitrust laws and prevent future violations.
In-house legal teams should review all vendor, distributor, and customer agreements—particularly those involving generic drug supply, distribution, and co-marketing—for clauses that could enable anti-competitive behavior. Focus on pricing terms, market allocation provisions, exclusivity arrangements, and any agreements with direct competitors. Specific clauses to scrutinize include antitrust compliance certifications, audit rights, termination triggers for legal violations, and cooperation obligations in investigations. Given the settlements, contracts may need amendments to include explicit prohibitions against price-fixing and market division, mandatory antitrust training, enhanced reporting requirements, and provisions allowing for independent compliance audits to align with the internal reforms agreed to by the settling parties.
Entity
Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex
Industry
HealthcareOfficial Press Release
https://portal.ct.gov/ag/press-releases/2024-press-releases/attorney-general-tong-announces-updates-in-litigation-against-generic-drug-manufacturers
AG Jepsen Leads Coalition in New Expanded Complaint in Feder
https://portal.ct.gov/AG/Press-Releases-Archived/2017-Press-Releases/AG-Jepsen-Leads-Coalition-in-New-Expanded-Complaint-in-Federal-Generic-Drug-Antitrust-Lawsuit
GDMS Complaint 51019 FINAL REDACTED PUBLIC VERSIONpdf
https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/AG/Downloads/GDMS Complaint 51019 FINAL REDACTED PUBLIC VERSIONpdf
Connecticut Attorney General Enforcement Page
https://portal.ct.gov/AG/Privacy/Privacy-Resources
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced a civil investigative demand into MediaLab.AI Inc., owner of the Kik Messenger app, over lax age assurance practices, content moderation, and child safety failures that advocates have dubbed a "predator's paradise." The action follows a July 2025 notice of violation under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act for privacy notice deficiencies and processing sensitive data — including health, biometric, and precise geolocation data — without proper consent, which the company has only partially addressed. The new investigation seeks records related to practices that may constitute unfair or deceptive acts or practices under the CTDPA and the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. No fine has been imposed to date.
Attorney General William Tong issued a consumer alert warning Connecticut residents about unregulated, offshore decentralized finance (DeFi) cryptocurrency exchanges, naming GMX, Gains Network, dYdX, Aevo, Drift Protocol, Vertex Protocol, and Hyperliquid. The alert highlights risks including bypassing U.S. law via VPNs, predatory leverage up to 250x, misleading synthetic asset products, and lack of KYC protections. No enforcement action or penalty was imposed; at least one Connecticut consumer reportedly lost $200,000 deposited with an unregulated DeFi exchange.
$2.0M
Attorney General Tong and a coalition of four other states and the FTC sued Zillow and Redfin after Zillow paid Redfin $100 million to shut down its multifamily rental advertising business and transfer clients to Zillow. The settlement requires the companies to restore competition, with Redfin rebuilding its apartment advertising business, and pay $2 million to the coalition.
Attorney General William Tong sent a letter to the Connecticut Insurance Department urging rejection of double-digit rate increases sought by Anthem, ConnectiCare, and UnitedHealthcare for individual and small group health insurance plans covering about 220,000 people. The letter argues the rates exceed inflationary measures and criticizes the carriers for failing to control costs and for poor claims system management, particularly ConnectiCare's transition to Molina Healthcare.
$275K
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced a $275,000 settlement with TaxAct, an online tax preparation company, over allegations that between January 2018 and December 2022, TaxAct improperly disclosed detailed customer financial information to Meta and Google through third-party tracking technologies without notifying taxpayers. The settlement requires TaxAct to pay $275,000 and implement new third-party tracking compliance measures, including a review committee, written policies, a tag monitoring system, and two independent third-party audits.
$4.0M
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and the Federal Trade Commission announced a $4 million settlement with Manchester City Nissan (Chase Nissan LLC) resolving allegations that the dealership double-charged for 'certified pre-owned' vehicles and collected unauthorized junk fees. The settlement requires payment for consumer redress, prohibits misrepresentations, mandates clear disclosure of the maximum total price, and requires express informed consent for all charges.