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Company: Warner-Lambert
Current Parent Company: Pfizer
Penalty: $190,000,000
Year: 2004
Date: May 13, 2004
Offense Group: healthcare-related offenses
Primary Offense: off-label or unapproved promotion of medical products
Mega-Scandal: Improper Drug Marketing
Violation Description: Warner-Lambert, a subsidiary of Pfizer, agreed to pay $190 million to resolve multistate litigation relating to the marketing of its drug Neurontin for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The total included $152 million to be paid to state Medicaid programs and $38 million to state consumer fraud offices. All this was part of a larger $430 million civil and criminal settlement also involving the federal government; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: New York
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pharmaceuticals
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.