Pfizer Settles Whistle-Blower Suit Over Detrol Marketing
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Pfizer Inc. agreed to pay $14.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by two whistle-blowers who claimed the company improperly marketed its bladder-control drug Detrol.
The whistle-blowers, former sales representatives David Wetherholt and Marci Drimer, sued Pfizer in federal court in Boston in 2006, claiming the company cheated Medicaid, the state-administered, federal health-care program for low-income people, by pushing Detrol for a prostate condition. The suit was filed under the False Claims Act on behalf of the U.S. and multiple states.