Drugmakers Daiichi Sankyo and Forest Laboratories have agreed to a $300 million settlement of multidistrict litigation by users of hypertension drug Benicar who linked their cases of severe diarrhea to use of the drug.
Attorneys placed the settlement on the record before U.S. District Judge Robert Kugler in Camden on Tuesday. The agreement would apply to about 2,000 cases from across the nation that were consolidated before Kugler, as well as another 100 cases pending in state Superior Court in Atlantic County.
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