Settlements - Drugs/Medical

Fibrinogen Hepatitis Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. pays $18.17 million settlement after infecting thousands of people with Hepatitis C. (Nov-3-07)
Ortho Evra Death Teenagers family awarded $1.25 million settlement after daughter died from blood clots. (Oct-26-07)
Biotape False Marketing Smart Inventions pays $2.5 million settlement. (Sep-20-07)
Boston Scientific Corp. $16.75 million settlement in breach of settlement agreement suit. (Aug-31-07)
Broadway Long Term Care Pharmacy Inc. $325,000 civil settlement in lawsuit over poor drug dispensing documentation. (Aug-24-07)
Cephalon Inc. $56 million settlement in controversial drug claims. (Aug-1-07)
University of California, Irvine, Medical Center $7.5 million settlement in liver transplant related medical malpractice suit. (Jul-26-07)
Merck & Co. $210 million added to existing reserves to settle Vioxx related lawsuits. (Jul-24-07)
Boston Scientific Corp. $195 million to settle the more than 4,000 claims in faulty heart defibrillators suit. (Jul-16-07)
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. $20 million settlement in pharmaceutical product misbranding lawsuit. (Jul-16-07)
Janssen Pharmaceutica Products and ALZA Corp. $5.5 million awarded after Duragesic pain patch leads to death. (Jun-26-07)
Accutane $2.5 million jury settlement awarded to Accutane victim. (Jun-19-07)
GlaxoSmithKline $64 million class action settlement over Paxil promotion. (May-25-07)
UnitedHealthCare $650,000 fine for insurance claim processing violations. (May-18-07)
Purdue Pharma LLC $19.5 million settlement for abuse and off-label uses of OxyContin. (May-10-07)
Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. Promoting off-label uses of Loprox results in $9.8 million settlement. (May-10-07)
DuPont Co. $9 million settlement for Benlate related birth defect in babies. (May-7-07)
GlaxoSmithKline Class action settlement awards more money to pediatric Paxil plaintiffs. (Apr-26-07)
Cell Therapeutics $10.5 million settlement in off label drug use and promotions. (Apr-20-07)
Pfizer Inc. $34.7 million settlement for off-Label marketing of Genotropin. (Apr-5-07)
Syntho Group Drug company receives $3.1 million in drug distribution rights commercial lawsuit. (Apr-3-07)
US Nursing Corp. $235,000 fine for personal services regulations violation. (Mar-27-07)
Avanir Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare $2.2 million settlement for Abreva false advertising. (Mar-19-07)
Merck & Co. $47.5 million settlement for not putting a warning about Vioxx's cardiovascular risks on the package insert. (Mar-15-07)
InterMune Inc. $36.9 million settlement for promoting off label uses of Actimmune. (Mar-9-07)
EMD Serono Inc. $24 million settlement for promoting Serostim for unapproved uses. (Feb-25-07)
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals $3 million settlement awarded to Prempro breast cancer victim. (Feb-21-07)
Bayer Corporation $8 million settlement for failing to warn consumers about Baycol side effects. (Jan-25-07)
Merck & Co. National class action for Vioxx claims rejected. (Nov-23-06)
GlaxoSmithKline Proposed $63.8 million class action settlement for promoting Paxil for use by children while withholding negative information. (Nov-1-06)
Prempro Jury awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages after Prempro allegedly lead to breast cancer. (Oct-4-06)
Novartis AG $19 million settlement awarded to Acambis regarding its Arilvax yellow fever vaccine. (Sep-12-06)
Schering-Plough $435 million settlement for improperly marketing cancer drugs. (Aug-30-06)
Merck & Co. Inc. $51 million settlement awarded to a heart attack victim who was taking Vioxx. (Aug-17-06)
NVE Pharmaceuticals $260,000 settlement for false advertising of Stacker-2. (Aug-16-06)
Kaiser Permanente $2 million fine for the mismanagement of the kidney transplant program in Northern California. (Aug-10-06)
Tenet Healthcare $700 million fraud settlement awarded to the Justice Department. (Jun-30-06)
Saint Barnabas Health Care System $265 million fraud settlement awarded to Medicare (Jun-15-06)
Catholic Healthcare West $1.3 million will be received by plaintiffs as part of a settlement of one class action lawsuit. (Jun-15-06)
Dr. Joseph Rudolph Agreed to pay the federal government $565,000 to settle civil lawsuit (Jun-14-06)
Baxter Healthcare $8.5 million settlement for falsely reporting wholesale prices to Medicaid (Jun-12-06)
Johnson & Johnson Confidential settlement awarded to Ortho Evra users. (Jun-5-06)
H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Co. $2.2 million settlement for conspiring to sell counterfeit prescription drugs. (May-17-06)
Owens Corning $5.2 billion settlement awarded to people sickened by asbestos. (May-15-06)
Merck & Co. $32 million verdict awarded after a man died while taking Vioxx. (Apr-21-06)
Merck & Co. $13.5 million settlement in compensatory and punitive damages awarded to a man who suffered a heart attack after taking Vioxx. (Apr-12-06)
Schering Plough KK $8 million settlement awarded to SciClone for a clinical trial dispute. (Apr-4-06)
Diageo PLC $150 million GBP financial settlement for people affected by thalidomide. (Dec-12-05)
Kroger Co. $7 million settlement for multiple violations of the Controlled Substances Act. (Nov-6-05)
Medirate Professional Pharmacy Inc. $450,000 settlement for lack of security after 300,000 doses of several controlled substances went missing from the pharmacy. (Nov-6-05)

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