Pfizer Inc. said Tuesday it is cooperating with a federal investigation into whether it's improperly marketing Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that is the world's top-selling medicine. Teamsters Local 863 charges that the New York-based company has cost drug plans billions of dollars in unwarranted prescriptions since 2001. The labor union's lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., seeks class action status for drug plans that have covered Lipitor prescriptions.
March 29, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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Pfizer Inc. on Tuesday said it is cooperating with a federal investigation into whether it is improperly marketing Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug that is the world’s top-selling medicine.
“We do not know who initiated or why an investigation was initiated in Brooklyn, but we have been cooperating with that investigation and have seen no merit in any of the claims in that matter,” a spokesman for Pfizer, Andrew B. McCormick, said in an e-mail Tuesday.
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