LAWFUEL – Nigeria filed new charges against Pfizer Inc seeking $6.95 billion in damages over the deaths of children who received an unapproved drug during a meningitis epidemic, as reported by Reuters.
The suit came after a separate court delayed until July two cases in which Pfizer is accused by the northern state of Kano of harming Nigerian children by testing them with the antibiotic Trovan in 1996.
Although the Kano state government case has been running for more than two years, Monday was the first time the federal government filed its own charges.
Nigeria alleged in papers filed at a Federal High Court in the capital Abuja that Pfizer, the world’s biggest drugmaker, did not obtain approval from the relevant regulatory agencies and acted unethically when it tested the antibiotic in Kano.
