HENRY SCHEIN INC

Henry Schein agreed to pay $1.1 million for allegedly violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law by providing improper remuneration to customers in the form of points redeemable for products and services.

Henry Schein, Inc., one of America's largest healthcare product distributors, has faced multiple employment discrimination lawsuits spanning different protected classes and jurisdictions. In 2008, James Rogers filed a civil action (Case No. 08-2497, S.D. W.Va.) alleging sexual harassment, sexual discrimination, libel, slander, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. In 2021, a lawsuit filed in Alameda County, California Superior Court alleged wrongful termination and retaliation after an employee reported that a top-earning Henry Schein sales representative repeatedly referred to the employee's Asian American wife — a well-known dentist and Henry Schein customer — as "sushi." The complaint alleged the offensive sales representative was not only allowed to continue working but was permitted to wage a campaign of false statements against the reporting employee, who was ultimately forced to resign. The cases span gender-based harassment and racial discrimination with retaliation, separated by over a decade.

Henry Schein Inc., the world's largest distributor of healthcare products to office-based practitioners, has accumulated $41M+ in penalties since 2000 per ViolationTracker. Enforcement actions include a $35M antitrust settlement (2020) for conspiring with Benco and Patterson to restrain competition and inflate dental product prices, a $500K controlled substances settlement for improper opioid distribution (2012-2018), and FTC action for deceptive encryption claims in its Dentrix dental software. The pattern reflects systemic compliance failures across antitrust, controlled substances, and consumer protection.

Between late 2023 and early 2025, Henry Schein suffered catastrophic series of ransomware attacks by BlackCat (ALPHV) group. Breach compromised personal and protected health information of 166,432 individuals (names, bank accounts, SSNs). In February 2025, $2.9M settlement approved for class-action alleging cybersecurity failures, specifically after hackers re-encrypted data during initial restoration.

Henry Schein was a primary defendant in massive MDL alleging conspiracy with Benco Dental and Patterson Companies to fix price margins and boycott buying groups. In June 2019, $80M class-action settlement received final approval. FTC successfully litigated administrative complaint concluding the trio "unreasonably restrained price competition" for dental products in the United States.