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Publication type: news

Asbury K
Former drug rep sues for unlawful discharge
The West Virginia Record 2010 Dec 21
http://www.wvrecord.com/news/232141-former-drug-rep-sues-for-unlawful-discharge


Full text:

A former employee is suing Novo Nordisk Pharmaceutical Industries for wrongly terminating his employment.

Brian Semenie, a pharmaceutical sales representative for Novo, was also named as a defendant in the suit.

David Myers began working for the defendant in January 2006 as a district business manager of pharmaceutical sales, according to a complaint filed Nov. 29 in Kanawha Circuit Court.

Myers claims during the course of his employment, Novo launched a Web site that provided physicians access to Novo’s pharmaceutical drug samples via the Internet.

Myers claims he expressed his concern that Novo was illegally distributing pharmaceutical drug samples.

The defendant willfully, maliciously and unlawfully terminated Myers’ employment after he expressed concern, according to the suit.

Myers claims Novo also failed to pay his employment wages within 72 hours.

Semenie falsely reported to Myers’ former clients that he had violated company policy, following his discharge, according to the suit.

Myers is seeking compensatory and punitive damages with pre- and post-judgment interest. He is being represented by Todd Bailess.

The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge Carrie Webster.

 

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Far too large a section of the treatment of disease is to-day controlled by the big manufacturing pharmacists, who have enslaved us in a plausible pseudo-science...
The blind faith which some men have in medicines illustrates too often the greatest of all human capacities - the capacity for self deception...
Some one will say, Is this all your science has to tell us? Is this the outcome of decades of good clinical work, of patient study of the disease, of anxious trial in such good faith of so many drugs? Give us back the childlike trust of the fathers in antimony and in the lancet rather than this cold nihilism. Not at all! Let us accept the truth, however unpleasant it may be, and with the death rate staring us in the face, let us not be deceived with vain fancies...
we need a stern, iconoclastic spirit which leads, not to nihilism, but to an active skepticism - not the passive skepticism, born of despair, but the active skepticism born of a knowledge that recognizes its limitations and knows full well that only in this attitude of mind can true progress be made.
- William Osler 1909