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Impact of Class Actions on Pharmaceutical Oversight: US, Israeli and French Perspectives

Posted by: Ruth Levush

A colleague recently drew my attention to the proposition that “in the United States, the specter of class-action lawsuits imposes a higher level of precaution on the part of drug makers.”  This statement was made in a newspaper article that discussed the scandal that erupted in France in connection with the prescription drug Mediator, which was …