By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - Global pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo Co Ltd has agreed to pay $39 million to the U.S. government and state Medicaid programs to settle claims it paid doctors kickbacks to prescribe its drugs, the Department of Justice said on Friday. The deal comes out of a whistleblower lawsuit filed by former Daiichi sales representative Kathy Fragoules, who will get $6.1 million of the settlement. The lawsuit claimed Daiichi paid kickbacks to doctors in the form of speaking fees at programs it hosted from 2004 until 2011. ...
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