Whistle-blowers' spotlight falls on drug companies:
US rules allowing big payouts weigh on life-sciences industry
"Suzanne Durrell, previously chief of the civil division of the Boston US attorney's office, who often works with Thomas, estimates since 2002 as many as 30 complaints have been filed under the False Claims Act in US District Court in Boston. That would be an increase compared with the 100 or so cases filed in the previous 13 years she helped oversee them, Durrell said."
Boston Globe
April 22, 2005
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Bad Medicine
"To gather evidence, prosecutors painstakingly searched through years of billing by individual doctors. "You could see doctors literally switching the cancer medication that a patient would be on based not on the best treatment for the patient, but based on the spread for the doctor on that drug," says Suzanne E. Durrell, former head of the civil division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston, who supervised the case."
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Feb. 2005
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