AstraZeneca pays out £125m to settle Seroquel class action suit

[Velvet Elvis]

This week the drug company AstraZeneca paid out £125m to settle a class action. Over 17,500 patients claim the company withheld information showing that schizophrenia drug quetiapine (tradename Seroquel) might cause diabetes. Why do companies pay out money before cases get to court?

This is a really good blog post:

http://www.badscience.net/2010/08/give-us-the-trial-data/