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Article: ELI LILLY AGREES TO PAY $1.415 BILLION TO RESOLVE ALLEGATIONS OF OFF-LABEL PROMOTION OF ZYPREXA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 15, 2009
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The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following statement:
American pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company today agreed to plead guilty and pay $1.415 billion for promoting its drug Zyprexa for uses not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Department of Justice announced today. This resolution includes a criminal fine of $515 million, the largest ever in a health care case, and the largest criminal fine for an individual corporation ever imposed in a United States criminal prosecution of any kind. Eli Lilly will also pay up to $800 million in a civil settlement with the federal government and the states.
Eli Lilly agreed to enter a global resolution with the ...