pfizer has reached a broad agreement to pay 2500 of dollars to benin ' s kano kingdom to resolve a criminal case alleging that the drug company unauthorized tested an experimental drug on critically ill youth during a 1996 meningitis incident . the claims remain obscure , but someone closer to the negotiation that the entire settlements - - namely those to the child , their families , the government and the prosecution ' s physicians - - wouldn be about $ 75 million under the existing settlement period . other details , including how the money will be distributed , are to be worked out within weeks .
Pfizer is the world's largest drug company.