The world's largest research based pharmaceutical company was in court again, as reported by the New York Times, The drug maker Pfizer...
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Pfizer's Umpteenth Settlement (for $491 Million Plus a Guilty Plea), but No Person Held Responsible
The world's largest research based pharmaceutical company was in court again, as reported by the New York Times, The drug maker Pfizer...
A "Simply Outstanding," "Superb" Hospital CEO Cops a Plea to Two Felonies
In all the discussions of what is wrong with US health care, very rarely is the quality of the leadership of health care organizations quest...
Ghosts in the Criminal Machine - How a Drug Company Can Plead Guilty to Federal Fraud, Yet No One is Held Responsible
We have often discussed how leaders of health care organizations have become increasingly unaccountable for their actions. A recent, slight...
Six Years Later, Ranbaxy - Oops, Daiichi Sankyo - Pleads Guilty to Adulteration, Pays $500 Million
It only took until 2013, but the US Food and Drug Administration finally secured guilty pleas and fines. The basics are in an Associated Pr...
The Dangers of Big Corporate Health Care: Deceptive Marketing of Cancer Treatments
A series of articles over the last few months, culminating in an investigative report by Reuters, provided the newest example of what can go...
How the "Revolving Door" and Other Aspects of Corporatism Benefited Amgen Just After its Settlement and Guilty Plea
At least here in these United States, our health care corporatism is bipartisan. Here we present a sorry story of how a company that should...
"Slap on the Wrist" for a "Too Big to Fail" Hospital - Judge Rejects WakeMed Settlement
Maybe we are reaching an inflection point in how misbehavior by big health care organizations is handled in the US legal system. We have fr...
