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Loss Contingency, Number Of Complaints Stayed By The Court

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Loss Contingency, Number of Lawsuits Filed

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The total number of new claims filed pertaining to a loss contingency during the period.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 450
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=121557415&loc=d3e14435-108349

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Number of plaintiffs that have filed claims pertaining to a loss contingency.

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Number of pending claims pertaining to a loss contingency.

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Contingencies and commitments (Additional Information) (Details)	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
	Apr. 30, 2019 agreement	May 31, 2019 complaints	Apr. 30, 2019 claim lawsuit plaintiffs	May 31, 2020 claim	Jun. 04, 2019 claim	May 20, 2019 claim
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of claims						1
Novartis Breach Of Contract Action
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Agreements breached \| agreement	2
Sensipar Antitrust Class Actions
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Loss contingency, number of plaintiffs \| plaintiffs			4
Loss contingency, number of lawsuits			2
Loss contingency, number of lawsuits filed \| lawsuit			4
Humira Biosimilar Antitrust Class Actions
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of claims				12	12
Number of complaints stayed \| complaints		6