Court: United States District Court, Northern District of Illinois

Result: $87.4 Million Settlement

Filed originally by Ken Wexler’s previous firm, this case was successfully prosecuted on behalf of consumers of the pharmaceutical Synthroid against its brand name manufacturer. The Synthroid case was one of the first, if not the first, cases brought against a brand name pharmaceutical manufacturer for attempting to suppress generic competition, a practice that significantly raises consumer drug prices. The Synthroid case settled in 2000 for an aggregate amount of $87.4 million.