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David Franklin Vs. Parke-Davis

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The court case I have chosen to examine is David Franklin versus Parke-Davis, which was a landmark lawsuit that ultimately ended up setting the precedence for future lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies for off-label promotion using the False Claims Act set forth in the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (FDCA). David Franklin was PHD level scientist who was employed by Parke-Davis as a medical liaison in 1996. The parent company for Parke-Davis at the time was the Warner-Lambert Company in which Park-Davis was responsible for the pharmaceutical products division that included the manufacturing, marketing and research and development for novel medications and therapies. During Franklin’s short tenure at Parke-Davis, he claimed that

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