Posts tagged settlement

• Did You Know... Safety Groups Question FDA Conflict Of Interest As Yaz Settlement Talks Continue?

  Brett Emison | February 06, 2012 11:15 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I've written before about settlement talks underway between thousands of women with Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella lawsuits and Bayer, the pharmaceutical giant who makes the Yaz birth control pill....

• Yaz Lawsuits Continue Toward Possible Settlement

  Brett Emison | January 11, 2012 11:35 AM | 1 CommentKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I wrote last week about a potential settlement of thousands of Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella lawsuits following Judge David Herndon's order requiring the parties to mediate and suspending...

• Yaz Lawsuits Move Toward Mediation Settlement Possibility

  Brett Emison | January 04, 2012 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  United States District Court Judge David R. Herndon moved parties in Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella lawsuits toward settlement through court-ordered mediation in an order entered New Year's Eve -...

• First US Trial On Avandia Dangers Settles Hours Before Set To Begin

  Brett Emison | June 03, 2010 3:59 PM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Reuters news service and The Wall Street Journal have reported that the first case set for trial in the United States on Avandia's link to heart attacks and other serious side effects settled...

• AstraZeneca Fined $520 Million For Seroquel Kick Back / Marketing Scheme

  Brett Emison | April 28, 2010 4:23 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I reported last year about AstraZeneca's ongoing problems with its antipsychotic drug, Seroquel. The pharmaceutical giant denied Seroquel's link to diabetes in the US years after acknowledging the...

• Zyprexa Settlement: Eli Lilly to Pay Utah $24 million

  Brett Emison | November 12, 2009 12:32 PM | 3 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Deseret News has reported that pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly, will pay the state of Utah $24 million to settle a lawsuit over Lilly's anti-psychotic drug, Zyprexa. Attorney General Mark...

• Seroquel Settlement -- AstraZeneca Pays Half A Billion Dollars To Settle Four Seroquel Cases

  Brett Emison | October 30, 2009 3:00 PM | 0 CommentsKansas City, MO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The New York Times reported that AstraZeneca -- the manufacturer of the atypical antipsychotic drug, Seroquel -- will pay $520 million to settle two federal investigations and two whistle-blower...