It requires patience, but there is a pot of gold at the other end of the rainbow.
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Parke-Davis, Warner-Lambert, Pfizer; Off-label promotion of Neurontin; May 2004
In 1996, whistleblower David Franklin left his position as a medical liaison with Parke-Davis, a pharmaceutical division of Warner-Lambert Company, after learning of the company's marketing strategy to promote the epilepsy drug Neurontin for uses not approved by the FDA and for which no evidence existed of the drug's effectiveness.[1] Franklin and his attorney, Thomas M. Greene, filed a lawsuit, Franklin v. Parke-Davis, under the False Claims Act in federal district court in Boston. In the first off-label promotion case ever litigated in a whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act, the settlement was announced after eight years of litigation in May 2004. Warner-Lambert agreed to pay $430 million to resolve all civil and criminal liability, with $24.64 million going to Franklin for his participation in the lawsuit.[2] To date, it is one of the largest recoveries against a pharmaceutical company in U.S. history.