Pfizer to Take Asbestos-Related Charge
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Pfizer Inc. PFE.N on Friday said it  will take a pretax charge of $369 million in the third quarter  for a settlement with plaintiffs who allege they were harmed by  products containing asbestos and harmful minerals once sold by  a Pfizer subsidiary.
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Pfizer Inc. and Canadian health officials moved Thursday to answer concerns over the painkiller Celebrex after a news report raised safety questions about the drug.
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Pfizer Inc., the world&#39;s largest drugmaker, agreed to pay $430 million to resolve personal-injury claims against a subsidiary that sold products containing asbestos in the 1970s.
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NEW YORK -- Pfizer Inc. yesterday said a major trial will test whether its popular Celebrex arthritis drug increases the risk of heart attacks, as seen with Merck and Co.'s recalled Vioxx pill.
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Pfizer, the world&#39;s largest drug maker, agreed Friday to pay $430 million to resolve personal-injury claims against a subsidiary that sold products containing asbestos in the 1970s.
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Singer Courtney Love is to face trial on 30 September on two drug charges for illegal possession of painkillers.
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KANO, Nigeria  - 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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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Pfizer Inc. , the world's largest drug maker, and 14 other pharmaceutical companies were accused by a group of California drugstores in a lawsuit of conspiring to keep lower-priced medicines from Canada out of the US market.
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U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc  said on Wednesday a New York State court ruling related to litigation over the company's painkiller Celebrex may cause many cases to be dismissed.
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Lawyers for a northern Nigeria state seeking $2 billion in damages from Pfizer Inc. over allegations of wrongdoing in a decades-old drug study failed to show up for the first court proceedings Monday and the case was postponed.
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Pfizer Inc. , the world's largest pharmaceutical maker, said a Nigerian court ruled against adding more claims to allegations that the company improperly tested a meningitis drug on children in 1996.
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JAMES Hardie chief executive Peter Macdonald will stand aside from his position in the wake of the findings of a special inquiry into the embattled building products company&#39;s asbestos liabilities.
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Bankrupt specialty chemicals firm says it is likely to be indicted for violating environmental laws. NEW YORK  - WR Grace &amp; Co.
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NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is probing bid-rigging in the insurance industry, expects to file suit against health insurance consultant Universal Life Resources as early as Friday, a spokesman for his office said.
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Authorities in northern Nigeria have filed a $2 billion civil case and were preparing criminal charges against the U.S. drug company Pfizer
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Australia's corporate watchdog has launched legal action against building products company James Hardie for allegedly misleading the stockmarket about its liabilities to asbestos disease victims.
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Pfizer Inc. on Monday said a major new trial will test whether its popular Celebrex arthritis drug increases the risk of heart attacks, as seen with Merck and Co.