A Minnesota law requiring pharmacies to pass on the cost-savings from filling prescriptions with generic drugs to consumers and third-party purchasers does not provide a private cause of action, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled.
Two union-sponsored health and welfare benefit funds, Graphic Communications Local 1B Health & Welfare Fund “A” and the Twin Cities Bakery Drivers Health and Welfare Fund, cannot bring a private cause of action under the Pharmacy Practice Act because Minnesota legislators did not create one in the statute, Justice Christopher J. Dietzen wrote for the court.
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