Nigerian state sues drugmaker Pfizer over tests
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KANO, Nigeria  - The Nigerian state of Kano is suing drug maker Pfizer Inc. for its alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic in 1996, court papers showed on Wednesday.
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Government lawyers filed a new $7 billion civil lawsuit Friday against Pfizer Inc., adding a more serious fraud charge to their allegations that the U.S. drug maker did not properly obtain consent from families while testing an experimental drug on their children.
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Nigerian representatives of foreign drug firms Thursday took out a newspaper advertisement to defend legally embattled Pfizer, saying it applied high ethical standards in its operations in the country.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- State Attorney General Charlie Crist announced Wednesday that his office filed a lawsuit against a Florida flu vaccine company for alleged price gouging.
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The Nigerian government delays its lawsuit against drugs giant Pfizer over allegations of illegal drug test.
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A lawsuit filed by the state and city of New York claims the drugmaker concealed the risks of the arthritis treatment Vioxx.
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Pfizer Inc.  and Microsoft Corp.  said on Thursday they filed parallel lawsuits against Web site operators and spam advertisers that they say sell illegal cheap versions of Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.
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A Nigerian court rejected on Tuesday an attempt by the government to amend its case claiming $6.95 billion damages from U.S. drug company Pfizer Inc for a drug trial on children in 1996.
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KANO, Nigeria  - The Nigerian state of Kano is suing drug maker Pfizer  for its alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic in 1996, court papers showed on Wednesday.
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A Nigerian court on Monday  ordered the arrests of three of the defendants in a trial over  a drug test conducted by Pfizer in 1996 which Nigerian  authorities say killed 11 children and left others disabled.
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A main Nigerian opposition party called Wednesday on US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to admit it carried out unethical drug trials in the northern state of Kano and pay the victims compensation.
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$7bn lawsuit against the drug manufacturer over claims an experiment left children dead or disabled.
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A Canadian class-action lawsuit has been  launched against Pfizer Inc. alleging that its arthritis drug  Celebrex caused cardiovascular side effects, the law firm  launching the suit said on Friday.
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Officials in Nigeria have brought criminal charges against pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. for the company's alleged role in the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic.
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Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, said Wednesday it won a court ruling in the Netherlands preventing Indian rival Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. from releasing a generic version of the company's cholesterol-reducing drug Lipitor.
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A billion dollar court case is delayed in Nigeria against a US pharmaceutical giant over a drug trial in which 11 children died.
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Pfizer Inc.  said on Tuesday  that it had won a patent case over its Lipitor drug in an Irish  court, which ruled a patent protecting the blockbuster  cholesterol fighter would be infringed by a competing product  from India&#39;s Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd.