SSRI DISCUSSION FORUM: Lilly - Zyprexa: whistleblowers will get 18% and become millionaires

SSRI DISCUSSION FORUM: Lilly - Zyprexa: whistleblowers will get 18% and become millionaires



http://pharmagossip.blogspot.com/> Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Company ("Lilly") will pay federal and state governments more than $1.4 billion to remedy a wide-ranging, off-label marketing scheme for its prescription drug, Zyprexa(R). This settlement is the largest qui tam settlement in the history of the False Claims Act.

Stephen A. Sheller, a well-known mass tort and class action lawyer from Philadelphia, filed the first Complaint in the case in February 2003, bringing the off-label drug allegations to the government under seal as required by law. Today, after six years, the Department of Justice settled with Lilly the allegations that six former Lilly drug marketing representative whistleblowers brought to Sheller.