State’s Purdue Opioid Suit Tests Holding Family, Purdue Directors Liable for Crisis August 5, 2019 By Janelle Lawrence Massachusetts took Purdue Pharma LP to task in a Boston courtroom Friday, blaming the opioid maker and the billionaire Sackler...
Jury Finds Insys Founder, Execs Guilty of Racketeering in Opioid Sales May 3, 2019 By Janelle Lawrence, Riley Griffin and Jef Feeley Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor was convicted of a racketeering conspiracy that drove sales of a highly addictive opioid...
Opioid Trial Winds Down; Insys Execs Deny Bribing Doctors, Duping Insurers April 5, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Janelle Lawrence A U.S. prosecutor portrayed Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and other former executives as greedy and heartless during closing...
Jurors Told How Insys Chief Used Competitors’ Data to Drive Own Opioid Sales March 7, 2019 By Janelle Lawrence Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor didn’t cut corners when it came to collecting intelligence on opioid sales, using the...
How High-Pressure Insys Prescription Call Center Lied to Insurers to Sell Opioids February 26, 2019 By Janelle Lawrence The goal for Insys Therapeutics Inc.’s call center in Phoenix was simple: persuade insurers to authorize at least 70 prescriptions...
Admissions Bias Claim Against Harvard Must Go to Bench Trial October 1, 2018 By Patricia Hurtado and Janelle Lawrence Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, must go to trial to defend a lawsuit claiming it discriminates against Asian-American applicants. A...
Smokers Ask Jury to Award Them Cancer Screening in Trial Over Marlboros February 10, 2016 By Janelle Lawrence Philip Morris USA should pay for annual chest scans for thousands of longtime Marlboro smokers in Massachusetts because the company...
Boston Taxi Owner Suit Latest Legal Salvo in Rideshare Wars January 20, 2015 By Andrew Harris and Janelle Lawrence Taxi owners accused Boston officials of violating their constitutional rights by permitting Uber Technologies Inc. and other ride-sharing services to...
Boston Uber Driver Charged With Raping Woman Who Sought Ride December 18, 2014 By Janelle Lawrence A Boston man who works as an Uber Technologies Inc. driver was charged with taking a woman to a secluded...
Former NECC Supervisor Pleads Not Guilty in 2012 Meningitis Case September 11, 2014 By Erik Larson and Janelle Lawrence A Boston-area pharmacist pleaded not guilty to a charge stemming from the deadly 2012 U.S. meningitis outbreak, a week after...