Subject: First Amendment

Summary of HB1125: Deceptive Lead Generation

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Lawsuit advertisements—specifically ones that target prescription drugs and medical devices—can be dangerous.  Nationwide, dramatized and exaggerated legal ads have flooded both televisions and the internet, often masquerading as “medical alerts.”  Some estimates have total spending on legal advertisements at around $1 billion annually.  As a result, state legislatures are beginning to take action to combat deceptive advertising and come up with solutions, including in Indiana, which recently passed House Bill 1125.  House Bill 1125 places several limitations on the practice of lead generation – the use of commercial communications to initiate consumer interest or inquiry into legal services intended to redress an alleged injury from a medical device or legend drug – and provides a private right of action for manufacturers and sellers of medical devices and legend drugs against deceptive lead generators.

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FDA Warns Against Sales Representative’s “False and Misleading” Oral Statements Regarding Prescription Medicine

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) sent an untitled letter to Eisai Inc. on October 11, 2018, based on a sales representative’s “false and misleading” oral statements during a lunch presentation about the safety of the antiepileptic medication Fycompa®, downplaying warnings, and engaging in off-label promotion of the product.

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