The Zyprexa Chronicles: Lilly Settles More Zyprexa Lawsuits, Remains Unsettled About Court Documents

Eli Lilly yesterday announced that it would settle 14 lawsuits against it over its drug Zyprexa. Total tab: $500 million. That brings to $1.2 billion the amount that Lilly has shelled out of the last 18 months to settle lawsuits relating to its star drug. I wonder how long it will be before evidence starts trickling out of that case.

Speaking of the evidence that has trickled out of the earlier 2005 settlement, Lilly now has a court order that it got expanded on Wednesday to include 8 individuals as well as MindFreedom and the Alliance for Human Research Protection. Lilly's attorneys claim that the individuals have made copies of some of the evidence from the 2005 case available illegally, have hosted it on websites, or, in the groups' case, have linked to such websites from their own websites. There will be another hearing in this case on Jan. 16. Stay tuned.

In addition, an attorney representing Eli Lilly has gone after a site called pbwiki.com for allegedly hosting some of the evidence from the same case. As best as I can tell, the site is refusing to take it down so far. Stay tuned to this one, too.