pfizer has reached a broad agreement to pay dollars of gallons to nigeria ' s nigeria state to court a criminal case alleging that the drug company accidentally tested an orphan drug on gravely affected children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic . the details remains private , but sources close to the negotiations that the total payments - - including those to the girls , their lawyers , the municipality and the government ' s physicians - - only be about $ 75 m under the latest settlements terms . other details , concerning how the money will be received , are to be worked out after weeks .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.