GSK Plc said it will pay as much as $2.2 billion to resolve about 80,000 US court cases related to allegations that its old reflux medication Zantac was contaminated with a suspected carcinogen.

(Bloomberg) -- GSK Plc shares surged after the UK pharma company agreed to pay as much as $2.2 billion to resolve about 80,000 US court cases alleging that its old reflux medication Zantac was ...

GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2 billion to resolve approximately 80,000 lawsuits brought by users of Zantac who claimed the heartburn drug caused their cancer. The agreement frees the British ...

GSK has reached an agreement that it says will resolve 93% of the outstanding lawsuits brought against the company claiming that its gastrointestinal drug Zantac caused cancer. The company has ...

GlaxoSmithKline agreed on Sept. 17 to settle out of the first Zantac trial in California, which began this month in Oakland. GSK won two defense verdicts in Illinois earlier this year but faced ...

GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2 billion to settle most lawsuits in US state courts claiming that a discontinued version of the heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, the company announced on ...

GSK has struck a $2.2 billion agreement to settle the vast majority of U.S. lawsuits filed against it over claims its Zantac heartburn remedy causes cancer. The British drugmaker’s settlement ...

GSK launched Zantac in 1981 and it was first approved for sale in the US in 1983 as a prescription medication. It went on to become the world's best-selling drug, with annual sales in excess of $1bn.

GSK Plc said it will pay as much as $2.2 billion to resolve about 80,000 US court cases related to allegations that its old ...