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Litigation

Jul. 13, 2013

Bayer agrees to settle Cipro antitrust case

A proposed settlement agreement filed Thursday in San Diego County Superior Court asks a judge to allow Bayer AG to pay $74 million in cash to end an 11-year antitrust class action stemming from the sale of the drug Ciprofloxacin.


By Ryne Hodkowski


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A proposed settlement agreement filed Thursday in San Diego County Superior Court asks a judge to allow Bayer AG to pay $74 million in cash to end an 11-year antitrust class action stemming from the sale of the drug Ciprofloxacin.


Plaintiffs, who bought the drug, claimed that between 1997 and 2003, Bayer paid $398.1 million to Barr Laboratories Inc., Hoechst Marion Roussel Inc., The Rugby Group Inc....

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