Pfizer pays $2.3 billion for deceptive marketing practices
September 2, 2009
7:37 pm
The world’s largest pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest healthcare fraud settlement in the history of the Department of Justice, to resolve criminal and civil liability charges arising from the illegal promotion of certain pharmaceutical products, the Justice Department announced today.