Update: After Latest Court Ruling, Must Employers Follow Biden’s Vaccine Mandates? December 19, 2021 By David A. Lieb and Geoff Mulvihill Tens of millions of workers across the U.S. are in limbo as federal courts have issued different rulings related to...
Update on Vaccine Mandates for Businesses, Health Workers and Federal Contractors December 6, 2021 By David A. Lieb and Geoff Mulvihill Millions of health care workers across the U.S. were supposed to have their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by...
On Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Movie Set and Others, Union Guidance Is Key to Gun Safety October 24, 2021 By Geoff Mulvihill, Jonathan Landrum Jr. and Susan Montoya Bryan Safety standards developed by film studios and labor unions are the primary protection for actors and film crews when a...
Bankruptcy Judge Urges Holdout States to Settle Issues With Purdue Pharma, Sacklers August 30, 2021 By Geoff Mulvihill A federal bankruptcy judge on Friday urged states that oppose a settlement plan with Purdue Pharma to try to work...
Setting the Stage for Thousands of Opioid Lawuits, Potentially Years of Litigation May 17, 2021 By Geoff Mulvihill A corner of West Virginia wrenched by opioid addiction is getting the chance to argue in a courtroom that some...
Drug Industry to Pay $1.25B to Settle Opioid Suits with West Virginia March 5, 2020 By Anthony Izaguirreirre and Geoff Mulvihill Communities in West Virginia say they would get $1.25 billion from the drug industry in a proposed settlement that would...
Opioid Victims Can Now File Injury Claims in Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Case January 29, 2020 By Geoff Mulvihill State and local governments have been leading the legal fight against the opioid industry, seeking payouts to help them deal...
Arizona Seeking U.S. Supreme Court Involvement in Opioid Case August 2, 2019 By Anita Snow and Geoff Mulvihill Arizona’s attorney general on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to force the Sackler family, which owns OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma,...
State, Local Governments Debate How to Best Allocate Any Opioid Settlement Funds August 2, 2019 By Geoff Mulvihill The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see...
Maker of OxyContin Gets Hit with Another State Lawsuit May 16, 2019 By Geoff Mulvihill The company that makes OxyContin did not stop pitching the powerful opioid painkiller to doctors even when its sales representatives...