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The following is a list of the 21 largest civil settlements, reached between the United States Department of Justice and pharmaceutical companies from 2001 to 2017, ordered by the size of the total civil settlement. Some of these matters also resolved criminal fines and penalties, listed in parentheses, but these amounts are not considered when ...
The settlement amount includes both the civil (False Claims Act) settlement and criminal fine. Glaxo's $3 billion settlement included the largest civil False Claims Act settlement on record, [1] and Pfizer’s $2.3 billion ($3.5 billion in 2022) settlement including a record-breaking $1.3 billion criminal fine. [2]
The lawsuits drove the company to declare bankruptcy in 1995, before it agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle claims from 240,000 women in amounts ranging from $2,000 to $250,000 each in 2004 ...
On the trading day before the settlement was announced, Johnson & Johnson stock closed at $93.37. A week after the announcement, it closed at $94.29. A year later, as thousands of Risperdal personal injury suits were pending, it would close at $108.62.
Personal injury lawyers were piling on, too, using websites, Google search advertising, social media and TV ads to gather clients who could claim they had been injured by Risperdal—and in some cases the competitor drugs sold by Eli Lilly or AstraZeneca. (Their Google ads are still there; search “Risperdal lawsuits.”
In the first off-label promotion case ever litigated in a whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act, the settlement was announced after eight years of litigation in May 2004. Warner-Lambert agreed to pay $430 million to resolve all civil and criminal liability, with $24.64 million going to Franklin for his participation in the lawsuit. [2]
Compounding the problem for J&J’s business strategists, the FDA’s December 29, 1993, letter officially approving the sale of Risperdal warned that the agency would “consider any advertisement or promotional labeling for Risperdal false, misleading or lacking fair balance” if it stated or implied that “Risperdal is superior to ...
Facebook recently paid 1.4 million Illinois residents $397 in 2022 as part of a class action lawsuit for facial recognition breaches through its “Tag Suggestions” feature, per CNBC.