Abbott, AbbVie settle TriCor marketing case for $25 million

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday announced the settlement, which resolves claims first raised in a whistleblower lawsuit filed in federal court in Philadelphia in 2009 by a former Abbott sales representative.AbbVie was spun out of Abbott in 2013.Neither company, both of which are based in Chicago, admitted to wrongdoing as part of the settlement.