Jacques Servier
French doctor and businessman (1922–2014)
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.
Biography
Founder of the pharmaceutical group Servier in 1954, he had a fortune estimated at US$7.7 billion.
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.
He is buried in the Main Cemetery of Orléans.
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