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Jacques Servier | |
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Died | 16 April 2014 92) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | (aged
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Businessman Founder of Laboratoires Servier |
Jacques Servier (9 February 1922 – 16 April 2014) was a French doctor and businessman. He was the founder and president of Laboratoires Servier, a pharmaceutical company. [1]
Founder of the pharmaceutical group Servier in 1954, he had a fortune estimated at US$7.7 billion. [2]
The group led by him, Servier, had been convicted several times to pay damages for Mediator, trade name of benfluorex. There was a class action also for Isoméride, trade name of dexfenfluramine. There are also active discussions and trial around benfluorex. [3] [4]
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