Cobb County said Wednesday it had joined a multistate legal effort to recoup what it alleges were illegally high prices for insulin drugs used to treat diabetes.
The lawsuit , filed on Tuesday in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, said an “unfair and deceptive conspiracy” by drugmakers and distributors fixed prices for Georgians.
Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, Sanofi-Aventis and three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States — Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — are the defendants in the suits…