PHILADELPHIA -- A $3.75 billion settlement fund created for people who took the banned diet drug combination fen-phen is receiving thousands of fraudulent heart-damage claims, lawyers argued in a federal court filing. The Philadelphia-based AHP Settlement Trust has received 71,000 claims, more than eight times the number expected when the fund was formed in 1999. The trust has so far paid about 2,700 claims at an average of $400,000.
Posted by Editor at January 24, 2004 05:20 PM