October 6th, 2011
J&J Pleads Guilty, Pays $85 Million to Settle Natrecor Case
Larry Husten, PHD
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Johnson & Johnson has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and has agreed to pay an $85 million criminal fine to settle charges about the company’s marketing of Natrecor (nesiritide) for off-label use. The government said that Scios, the J&J subsidiary that marketed the drug, “admitted that it intended Natrecor to […]