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Pfizer Loses Off-Label Case

  • Forbes, Friday, April 5, 2013 10 AM

A federal appeals court in Massachusetts reversed a lower court's decision to throw out a lawsuit by Aetna. The suit accused Pfizer of illegally promoting the off-label use of Neurontin. The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lower court erred when it refused to allow Aetna to sue Pfizer over what it called a racketeering conspiracy to induce physicians to prescribe Neurontin for off-label uses like treating bipolar disorder.

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