BCBS names Pfizer managers in kickback suit

Blue Cross claims Pfizer bought airfare to Caribbean resorts for 5,000 doctors who also received up to $2,000 "honoraria" each, plus golf games and massages just for listening to lectures about the now-withdrawn painkiller.

Blue Cross has also introduced a new tactic into the legal game of attempting to recover monies paid for illegally promoted pharmaceuticals: it names individual Pfizer executives as defendants