AstraZeneca Said to Pay $55 Million to Settle 5,500 Seroquel Suits - Bloomberg

AstraZeneca Plc, the U.K.’s second- biggest drugmaker, agreed to pay about $55 million to settle around 5,500 lawsuits related to side effects of the antipsychotic Seroquel, people familiar with the accords said.

The settlements, with an average payout of about $10,000 per case, resulted from mediation involving 26,000 suits filed over Seroquel, the people said. The London-based company previously agreed to pay $2 million to resolve more than 200 allegations that Seroquel causes diabetes in some users, people familiar with those accords said last month.

“It implies that the overall exposure is very low” for AstraZeneca, Navid Malik, an analyst at Matrix Corporate Capital in London, said today in an interview. “$10,000 per patient doesn’t seem high” to settle drug-safety suits.

via bloomberg.com

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