Jacques Servier
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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.
Decorations
- 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)
- National Order of Merit Officer (1981) Commander (21 May 1985; by President François Mitterrand)
- Ordre des Palmes Académiques Knight (1980) Officer (1996)