The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has reinstated a class action suit targeting unsolicited faxes that pharma giant Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc. allegedly sent to promote one of its medications.
The Second Circuit unanimously ruled that U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill of the District of Connecticut erred in dismissing the suit brought by Physicians Healthsource Inc., an Ohio-based chiropractic clinic, stating that receiving unsolicited faxes promoting a free event for a drug that helps victims of a sexual disorder are “sufficient to state a claim.”
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