Attorney General – State Attorneys General Blog

On June 23, 2026, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a civil investigative demand to CVS Health Corporation, the parent company of both the Caremark pharmacy benefit manager and hundreds of CVS retail pharmacies in Florida, opening a civil investigation into alleged anticompetitive and unfair pharmacy practices. The investigation is the latest in a wave of state and federal actions targeting the vertically integrated business models of the nation’s largest PBMs.

Read the full Alert on the Duane Morris LLP website.

February 13, 2026February 17, 2026 by Duane Morris

Multistate Cannabis Operators Face First-of-Their-Kind Antitrust Claims from Ohio Attorney General

By Sean P. McConnell, Wayne A. Mack, Christopher H. Casey, Paul P. Josephson, Tracy Gallegos, Michael D. Schwamm, and James Hearon

The Ohio attorney general recently filed an unprecedented state antitrust enforcement action against nine of the nation’s largest multistate cannabis operators. The complaint alleges these defendants formed illegal cartels through reciprocal supply agreements, competitively sensitive information exchanges and discriminatory distribution practices designed to exclude independent Ohio cannabis operators from the market and artificially inflate consumer prices. The complaint seeks injunctive relief, civil forfeitures of $500 per day per defendant for each day the alleged combinations were in effect, and attorneys’ fees. Read the full Alert on the Duane Morris website.