FLASHBACK: Pfizer to pay £50m after deaths of Nigerian children in drug trial experiment

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A divorce case was all that passed for excitement at Richard P Altschuler’s “kinda small” lawyer’s office in West Haven, Connecticut, when the phone rang nine years ago. On the other end of the line, a world away in the heat of Nigeria, was Etigwe Uwo, a young lawyer with “an incredible story about Pfizer”. The Lagos attorney was going to take on the largest pharmaceutical company in the world in an unprecedented class action pitting African parents against an American corporate giant. And he needed help. Mr Etigwe had chosen Mr Altschuler because, back in 1979, the Connecticut lawyer …read more

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