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The National Consumer Service (Sernac) confirmed this Wednesday that two pharmacy chains should compensate about 53 thousand customers that were affected by drug price collusion.
This was achieved after a class action lawsuit filed by the Service against the three largest pharmacy chains operating in Chile.
So, Salcobrand Y green Cross They will compensate consumers who were affected by the collusion of a list of 206 drugs that occurred between December 2007 and March 2008.
Sernac explained that the compensatory process will benefit a group of almost 53 thousand consumers, who will receive compensation of around $ 22 thousand.
Smoked Pharmacies (FASA) did not submit a compensation proposal in this process, so will remain on trial.
The two pharmacies that will compensate those affected will have to disburse, together, $ 1,387 million (more than US $ 1.8 million).
In January, Sernac reported that it would seek that the pharmacies that colluded – Ahumada, Cruz Verde and Salcobrand – advance their compensation proposal for affected customers.
This after hearing the first instance ruling that condemned those firms to compensate consumers affected by the collusion of the list of 206 drugs. There, the agency began steps to deliver a “timely proposal, under more favorable conditions and to establish mechanisms so that the amounts are delivered expeditiously.”
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