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Bayer Settles Lawsuit for $40M After Former Employee Claimed Company Violated False Claims Act

It took 17 years, but Bayer and former employee Laurie Simpson have finally resolved their whistleblower lawsuit.

Without admitting wrongdoing, Bayer agreed to pay $40 million—including $11 million to Simpson—to settle her claims that the company used kickbacks and violated the False Claims Act in marketing its drugs Avelox, Baycol and Trasylol.

Bayer termed it a “business decision,” in an emailed statement. 

“Resolution was preferable to continuing already protracted litigation under a statute that is inefficient and in need of reform. Significantly, the federal government never chose to intervene in these two FCA cases, and now as a result of the settlement, they will be dismissed,” it said.

Read the source article at Pharma News

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