4 drug companies to pay $916 million in Plavix blood thinner lawsuit

HONOLULU, Hawaii: A Hawaii court has ordered Bristol Myers Squibb Company and three U.S.-based subsidiaries of Sanofi to pay US$916 million to the state for failing to disclose the efficacy and safety of the blood thinner Plavix, according to Hawaii's attorney general.

First Circuit Court Judge James Ashford, who delivered the judgment, found that the companies did not adequately update the Plavix label to infor