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As Bloomberg News (8/5, Feeley, Milford) reports, “AstraZeneca Plc, the UK’s second-biggest drugmaker, agreed to pay about $55 million to settle around 5,500 lawsuits related to side effects of the antipsychotic Seroquel [quetiapine].” AstraZeneca’s “5,500 settlements include 4,000 that AstraZeneca acknowledged in a July 29 regulatory filing.” The company “is moving to resolve Seroquel claims as it faces expiring patents on the drug and the ulcer treatment Nexium [esomeprazole] in the next four years.”
We hope that these settlements effect how drug companies decide to do business. They must put patient safety above profits.
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
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