Other LanguagesOLYMPIA — Attorney General Nick Brown co-led today a multistate lawsuit filed against the Trump Administration for its unlawful attempt to disrupt grant funding issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is the second lawsuit filed by state attorneys general against NIH for cancelled funding.
OLYMPIA — Attorney General Nick Brown today joined a coalition of 24 states in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for abruptly and illegally terminating $11 billion in critical public health grants to the states.
OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that due to his Medicaid Fraud Control Division’s investigation, Lincare Inc. paid Washington state $1.15 million. This will reimburse the state’s Medicaid program for Lincare’s fraudulent overbilling of leased oxygen equipment.
TACOMA — A federal judge upheld Washington’s ban on selling and distributing at-home sexual assault kits today, dismissing a lawsuit brought by a Pennsylvania company that sells the self-administered kits for profit.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson is urging a federal judge in Spokane to rule that the Food & Drug Administration’s severe restrictions on the abortion medication mifepristone are unlawful, and order the federal agency to go back to the drawing board on regulating the drug.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that he is suing TikTok for putting profits before the well-being of millions of its most vulnerable users by creating a platform that is addictive to youth. Ferguson’s lawsuit is part of a nationwide bipartisan effort, with 14 other attorneys general filing their own similar lawsuits.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced his partnership with a bipartisan group of six attorneys general in a federal lawsuit asserting New York-based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals inflated the price it charged Medicaid for an important eye medication. The scheme resulted in the submission of tens of thousands of false claims to Medicaid and millions of dollars in losses to the states.
SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson offers the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to send the challenge to Idaho’s near-total abortion ban back to lower courts, temporarily allowing emergency abortions to resume:
SEATTLE — Today, Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the launch of HearMeWA, a first-of-its-kind statewide reporting system exclusively focused on the safety and well-being of young people.
SEATTLE — The Attorney General’s Office won a trial against debt collection agency Optimum Outcomes. Optimum is the last remaining defendant in Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s charity care lawsuit against Providence Health & Services, one of the nation’s largest health care systems, and its debt collectors.