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Pfizer agrees to $430 million neurontin settlement.(Pharmaceutical Sales)

Publication: Medicine & Health

Publication Date: 17-MAY-04
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COPYRIGHT 2004 Thomson Financial Inc.

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay $430 million to settle federal and state charges that one of its divisions fraudulently promoted the drug Neurontin for an array of unapproved uses.

In a May 13 statement, the Justice Department said Warner-Lambert Co. used various schemes to encourage physicians to prescribe Neurontin, which was only approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a supplemental anti-seizure medication for epileptics, for ailments including bipolar...

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