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

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

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 [...]