Pfizer Penalties Since 2000: $10B
I actually used to work for them as a lawyer, indirectly. My view is likely a bit skewed in the other direction, but to me this is mostly evidence of how expensive and impossible it is to do business in healthcare in the United States.<p>How are the laws and regs so unclear that a huge corporation of smart people can't avoid big fines? Part of it is a question of Pfizer's investment in compliance - which I assure you is massive - but also it's a lack of clarity and shifting goal posts.<p>False claims act litigation, for example, is responsible for the second largest settlement listed on this site (phen fen is #1), a notorious and utterly incomprehensible regime where all of the big money settlements relate to aggressive fringe theories asserted by DOJ.