Healthy Skepticism Library item: 16671

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Publication type: news

Associated Press
Eli Lilly Settles Zyprexa Suit With South Carolina
The New York Times 2009 Oct 23
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/business/24bizbriefs-ELILILLYSETT_BRF.html?_r=1

Abstract:

South Carolina’s attorney general, Henry McMaster, said the state had reached a $45 million settlement with the drug maker Eli Lilly & Company over the company’s marketing of an antipsychotic drug. Mr. McMaster’s office said Friday that the agreement was the second-largest settlement deal in state history. He sued Lilly, which is based in Indiana, in 2007, arguing that it had improperly marketed the drug, Zyprexa. The settlement recovers state money used to treat illnesses said to have been caused by the drug. In October 2008, Lilly reached a $62 million settlement with 32 states that had sued over Zyprexa. Lilly officials did not immediately answer a message on Friday.