The owner of a Newark, N.J., pharmacy was sentenced April 6 in connection with an investigation into pharmacy owners and employees fraudulently filling prescriptions.

AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. paid a $1.9 million fine for violating New York’s insurance laws between 2001 and 2006, regulators said.

Just a little over a week after it suspended a prescription benefit provider for 21 states, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has terminated the company’s contract, effective immediately.