Express Scripts Beats Pharmacies’ Contract, Antitrust Case

Express Scripts Holding Co. defeated a lawsuit by a group of retail pharmacies that accused the company of attempting to monopolize a portion of the pharmacy market by unlawfully using their customer information to steal their customers, under a Friday ruling from the Eighth Circuit.

The pharmacies, including Trone Health Services Inc. and Reddish Pharmacy Inc., failed to plausibly allege claims for breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, and attempted monopolization based on Express Scripts’ practice of automatically enrolling their customers in its mail-order pharmacy service, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said.

The court affirmed ...