{"id":828624,"date":"2026-07-28T07:40:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/828624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:40:30","slug":"canada-class-action-lawsuit-for-drug-rexulti-deadline-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/828624\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada class-action lawsuit for drug Rexulti: Deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 27, 2026 at 10:01AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 27, 2026 at 5:32AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deadline is fast approaching for Canadians to claim their share of a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit over the drug Rexulti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canadians have until Aug. 27 to <a href=\"https:\/\/rochongenova.com\/current-class-action-cases\/rexulti\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/rochongenova.com\/current-class-action-cases\/rexulti\/\">file a claim<\/a> for their share of a $4.75 million settlement over the antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia and depression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Quebec Superior Court approved the settlement in November, one year after authorizing the national class action against Otsuka Canada Pharmaceutical Inc. and Lundbeck Canada Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The class action covers Canadians who were prescribed the drug since February 2017 and later developed compulsive behaviours or impulse-control disorders such as gambling, shopping or binge-eating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lawyers representing affected patients and families have said the deal is a compromise with no admission of liability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Applicants could receive anywhere from roughly $6,500 for mild cases to more than $102,000 in more severe cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 27, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0July 27, 2026 at 10:01AM EDT Published:\u00a0July 27, 2026 at 5:32AM EDT The deadline is fast approaching for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490,621],"class_list":["post-828624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}