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French doctor and businessman

Born(1922-02-09)9 February 1922

Died16 April 2014(2014-04-16) (aged 92)

OccupationsBusinessman
Founder of Laboratoires Servier

Jacques Servier
Born	(1922-02-09)9 February 1922 Vatan, France
Died	16 April 2014(2014-04-16) (aged 92) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Occupations	Businessman Founder of Laboratoires Servier

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.^[1]

Founder of the pharmaceutical group Servier in 1954, he had a fortune estimated at US$7.7 billion.^[2]

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.^[3]^[4]

He is buried in the Main Cemetery of Orléans.

Decorations

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Legion of Honour
- Knight (1976)
- Officer (1 December 1987; by Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Philippe Séguin)
- Commander (31 December 1992; by Minister for Foreign Trade Dominique Strauss-Kahn)
- Grand Officer (25 March 2002; by President Jacques Chirac)
- Grand Cross (31 December 2008; by President Nicolas Sarkozy)^[5]
National Order of Merit
- Officer (1981)
- Commander (21 May 1985; by President François Mitterrand)
Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Knight (1980)
- Officer (1996)

References

↑ Bloomberg BusinessWeek
↑ "Jacques Servier - Forbes". Forbes. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
↑ "French patients sue over weight-loss drug linked to deaths". The Guardian. 24 November 2010.
↑ Mullard A (March 2011). "Mediator scandal rocks French medical community" (PDF). Lancet. Vol. 377, no. 9769. pp. 890–892. PMID 21409784. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-05-25.
↑ "Sarkozy vows health system fix after drug furore". AlertNet. 20 January 2011. Archived from the original on 14 June 2012. Retrieved 24 September 2011.

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