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Pfizer pays $2.3 billion penalty for illegal marketing of drugs: largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history

Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:05 By GSerrano

Pfizer Inc. is the world’s largest drug maker, and the biggest among Big Pharma. It will also pay the largest healthcare fraud settlement in US history with ‘a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotions’ of 4 prescription drugs. The case: deceptive and fraudulent marketing of the drugs Bextra (anti-inflammatory), [...]

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