In August last year, Schering-Plough settled an investigation of off-label marketing of its cancer drugs. The company paid $435 million to make the feds go away. Now SP has a new problem—on Friday, a civil class action suit was filed by two health benefit plans who want to be reimbursed for money spent on drugs wrongly prescribed.
Some selections from the suit (download below):
“Schering carried out an unlawful scheme to corrupt doctors’ judgment in two ways: First, Defendant Schering disseminated false and misleading information about the efficacy and safety of their drugs and, second, defendant Schering paid doctors money to induce or persuade them to prescribe Schering drugs.”
“Schering paid bribes and kickbacks to doctors to influence them to prescribe Temodar and Intron Franchise drugs for off-label uses when they otherwise would not have done so.”
“Schering received in excess of $3.4 billion in before tax profits, representing ill-gotten gains to which it was not entitled.”
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