Novo Nordisk contests Danish 訴訟 (人命などを)奪う,主張するing $1.75 bln

COPENHAGEN, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Danish insulin-製造者 Novo Nordisk said it would fight a 訴訟 とじ込み/提出するd in a Danish 法廷,裁判所 on Friday which 主張するs the company made 誤って導くing 声明s about its insulin 商売/仕事 in the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs, the company said in a 声明.

"Novo Nordisk 同意しないs with the 主張s and is 用意が出来ている to defend the company in this 事柄," the company said.

The 安全s 訴訟 was とじ込み/提出するd by a number of 株主s who (人命などを)奪う,主張するs 補償(金) 価値(がある) a total of 11.785 billion Danish 栄冠を与えるs ($1.75 billion) based on 貿易(する)ing of Novo 株 for two years from February 2015.

とじ込み/提出するd in the Danish 地方裁判所 of Glostrup, the 訴訟 主張するs Novo Nordisk did not make "appropriate 公表,暴露s regarding its sales of insulin 製品s in the USA," Novo said.

Lawyer Thomas Ryhl, 代表するing about 260 年金 基金s behind the 訴訟, said Novo failed to tell the entire truth behind the company's 増加するd 歳入 in the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs.

"They did, but they did it too late. What they said in 2016, they should have said already in 2014 and 2015," he said.

The news had little 即座の 衝撃 of Novo's 株 which 貿易(する)d up 1% at 1345 GMT.

"It is a very コンビナート/複合体 事例/患者 and it's not 黒人/ボイコット-and-white. I am far from 確かな , that Novo will lose this 事例/患者," Sydbank's 分析家 Soren Lontoft Hansen told Reuters.

"It will be a large 罰金 if they do, but Novo has a strong 財政上の 創立/基礎," Hansen 追加するd.

によれば Ryhl, Novo's 歳入 from insulin sales in the U.S. 増加するd between 2015 and 2017, but Novo's rebates to pharmacy 利益 経営者/支配人s 平等に rose in the same period.

"現実に, Novo's 利益(をあげる)s from its insulin sales dropped, even though prices and sales 増加するd," he told Reuters.

In the period between February 2015 and February 2017, Novo's 株 price jumped between 220 and 410 Danish 栄冠を与えるs.

Novo said the Danish 訴訟 含む/封じ込めるd "概して 類似の" 主張s to th ose of a 以前 発表するd 安全s class-活動/戦闘 訴訟 とじ込み/提出するd in the US in 2017 against the company.

That 現在進行中の 訴訟 主張するs Novo has misled 投資家s and colluded with 産業 peers to 増加する 麻薬 prices and artificially inflate its 財政上の results, によれば Novo.

($1 = 6.7294 Danish 栄冠を与えるs) (報告(する)/憶測ing by Nikolaj Skydsgaard Editing by 示す Potter/Keith Weir)

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