The company “weakened people’s trust in the health system”, the court’s presiding judge Sylvie Daunis said as she pronounced the verdict. Instead the company “misled” consumers, she said, fining the company €2.7 million for aggravated deceit, manslaughter and causing unintentional injury. In a damning verdict for the regulator the court convicted it of manslaughter and causing unintentional injury, saying it “seriously failed in its role as health watchdog”. The first cases of heart disease linked to the drug were flagged in 1999, a decade before the drug was withdrawn. Servier and Seta claimed they did not know the drug was dangerous until 2009 when it was withdrawn.

Source: The Local March 29, 2021 10:30 UTC