The lawsuit claims the DOJ and the OIG are filing "oppressive" and
"overly broad" subpoena requests, and Stryker is asking the court to
invalidate the subpoenas and stop their enforcement, according to the The Record in North Jersey.
Stryker has said it has already provided hundreds of thousands of
documents and a significant amount of electronic information in
response to the subpoenas as the federal agencies investigate the false
claims allegations.
"Stryker has been damaged and continues to suffer damages as a result
of defendants’ ongoing actions in pursuing enforcement of an oppressive
and overbroad (subpoena)," Stryker lawyers wrote in the lawsuit,
according to the Kalamazoo Gazette in Michigan.
Although Stryker settled with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in October
2007 following allegations that its orthopedics division was allegedly
providing kickbacks to surgeons for their use Stryker products, the
settlement did not protect it from investigation from the OIG,
according to the Kalamazoo Gazette.
Read The Record’s coverage of the Stryker lawsuit.
Read the Kalamazoo Gazette’s coverage of the Stryker lawsuit.
