State receives $200,000 in settlement with Bayer

After just three weeks on the job, Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler has landed an $8 million settlement from Bayer Corp. over the drugmaker?s prescription drug Baycol.

Gansler announced the settlement after it was filed Tuesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Maryland and 29 other states that joined the complaint in June 2004 will share the $8 million settlement. Maryland?s share is $200,000.