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• Pfizer Tries Again for Sanctions Against Neurontin Witness

  BNET - 2009-11-13

  Pfizer PFE is playing hardball in its attempt to get sanctions applied to an expert in the Neurontin litigation who contacted another witness wthout the drug company's permission. The company is asking a judge to overturn the ruling of a federal magistrate that sanctions should not be applied to Dr....

  Tags: Sanction, Pfizer Inc., Litigation, Advertising & Promotion, Business Operations, Marketing, Jim Edwards

• Law & Order: The Pfizer Episode! "Doped" Sketches the Kopchinski-Bextra Settlement

  BNET - 2009-11-09

  Chung-chung! NBC on Friday night aired an episode of Law & Order that appears to have been inspired in part by Pfizer's $2.3 billion Bextra settlement. I'm not the only one who noticed the "ripped from the headlines" quality of "Doped," the eighth episode of season 20. CafePharma is already...

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Settlement, Episode, CafePharma, Litigation, Business Operations, Jim Edwards

• Grassley's NAMI Probe May Want to Look at Pfizer Whistleblower Suit

  BNET - 2009-10-22

  Sen. Charles Grassley is investigating the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the New York Times reports. He might want to look into Pfizer's $2.3 billion Bextra settlement as one of the suits within it made some juicy claims about how NAMI works. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Grassley, Litigation, Business Operations, Jim Edwards

• DOJ Blames Pfizer Management for Bextra Mess: "The Goal Was to Avoid Getting Caught"

  BNET - 2009-10-16

  The Department of Justice blamed Pfizer's management for the $2.3 billion Bextra settlement by creating a "corporate culture" in which off-label promotion was encouraged, and where not going along was regarded as a "CLM" or career-limiting move. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Professional Development, Litigation, Leadership, Career, Business Operations, Management, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer's "Witness Tampering" Motion in Neurontin Case Is Denied

  BNET - 2009-10-14

  A federal judge has ruled against Pfizer's request for sanctions against a witness in the Neurontin litigation whom it alleged had attempted to wrongly influence another witness in the case. The judge dismissed Pfizer's allegations with just four words: This Motion is DENIED. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Tampering, Pfizer Inc., Witness, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Jim Edwards

• List of Pfizer's Trovan Victims Has Been Lost, Nigerian Officials Say

  BNET - 2009-10-06

  Nigerian officials have lost the list of victims to be compensated under Pfizer's $75 million settlement with the Kano State government following the Trovan meningitis trials in that country. The money was to be paid by Oct. 15, but the process has now been stretched out a further three months...

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Government, Litigation, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer Email on "Negligible Evidence" for Neurontin as a Bipolar Drug Is Focus of Lawyers' Tug-of-War

  BNET - 2009-10-01

  An email in the Neurontin litigation that Pfizer claims should be sealed shows former Pfizer vp/neuroscience Atul Pande telling a colleague that there is "negligible evidence" for the use of Neurontin in bipolar disorder and that the drug is "not a good anti-manic treatment." by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., E-mail, Litigation, Online Communications, Business Operations, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer Accused of "Blatant Hypocrisy" Over Alleged Witness Tampering in Neurontin Case

  BNET - 2009-09-30

  Plaintiffs in the Neurontin litigation have accused Pfizer of "blatant hypocrisy" for insisting that witnesses should not contact each other in the case because Pfizer once sent an ex-CIA agent to the home of a witness in a separate Neurontin case. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Tampering, Pfizer Inc., Hypocrisy, Witness, Litigation, Real Estate, Business Operations, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer's Lawyers Play Musical Chairs in Wake of Bextra Settlement

  BNET - 2009-09-23

  Pfizer's lawyers have found themselves playing musical chairs since the $2.3 billion Bextra settlement. The general counsel's office has been stripped of part of its compliance role under a new corporate integrity agreement with the government stemming from the Bextra scandal. More recently, senior corporate counsel Paulette Morgan left Pfizer...

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Settlement, Litigation, Government, Business Operations, Jim Edwards

• 2 Can Play That Game: Pfizer Claims Witness-Tampering in Neurontin Case

  BNET - 2009-09-18

  Pfizer can play hardball too. A few weeks after sustaining a black eye in the Neurontin litigation when it sent an ex-CIA agent to the home of a plaintiffs' witness, Pfizer has accused the plaintiffs' side of doing something similar: an expert witness for the family of a man who...

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