SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASESettlement Agreement • December 15th, 2015 • Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. • Pharmaceutical preparations • New York
This Settlement Agreement and General Release (the “Settlement Agreement”) is made and entered into as of December 14, 2015 (the “Effective Date”), by and among Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Pacira”), Dr. Loren J. Harris (“Harris”), Dr. Joseph W. Bell (“Bell” and, together with Harris, the “Doctor Plaintiffs”), the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), the United States of America, Dr. Stephen Ostroff, in his official capacity as Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs (“Ostroff”), the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), and Sylvia Mathews Burwell (“Burwell”), in her official capacity as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (each a “Party” and collectively, the “Parties”).(1)
