CBS4 RTV4 WHBF Quad Cities, IL / IA News Weather SportsSettlement Means Money For Remeron Users
(AP) _ Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says nearly three-thousand Illinois consumers will get compensation for paying too much for the medication Remeron between 2001 and 2005.
Madigan says 2,993 Illinois residents will receive $481,568 dollars for overpayment on the anti-depressant drug and its generic equivalents.
The nationwide settlement resulted from litigation against Organon U-S-A Incorporated and its parent company Akzo Nobel. A complaint filed in 2004 alleges that Organon misled the U-S and Food and Drug Administration about the scope of a patent it had obtained.
The complaint claims Organon delayed listing the patentwith the F-D-A to deny consumers the availability of low cost generic substitutes. The total settlement is $36 million with $8.6 million for consumers.
