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.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.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.