At Oklahoma Trial, J&J Opioid-Sales Tactics Called a ‘Smart Strategy for Drug Dealer’ June 13, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson used promotional gimmicks for its opioid painkillers that are similar to how criminal drug dealers try to...
Jury Orders J&J, Colgate to Pay Almost $10 Million in Talc Case June 13, 2019 By Margaret Cronin Fisk, Jef Feeley and Robert Burnson Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive Co. must pay almost $10 million to a dying California woman who blamed the companies’...
Doctor in Oklahoma Trial Says J&J Pushed Opioids Even After Abuse Became Known June 11, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Andrew Harris Oklahoma’s star witness told a state judge that Johnson & Johnson pressed doctors to prescribe its painkillers even as the...
Opioid Maker Insys Files for Bankruptcy in Wake of Bribery Convictions, Probe Settlement June 10, 2019 By Riley Griffin and Jef Feeley Drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc., whose former executives were convicted of bribing doctors to prescribe its highly addictive opioid, filed for...
Insys Agrees to $225 Million Settlement of U.S. Claims of Illegal Opioid Sales June 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin Insys Therapeutics Inc., grappling with the prospect of bankruptcy after its founder was convicted on racketeering charges, agreed to pay...
J&J Told to Pay $300M More by Manhattan Talc-Cancer Jury June 3, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk Johnson & Johnson was ordered by a jury to pay $300 million in punitive damages to a woman who blamed...
Father Testifies in J&J Opioid Marketing Trial on Death of His College Football Star Son May 30, 2019 By Jef Feeley Austin Box was a home-grown football star at the University of Oklahoma in 2010 when back surgery to repair an...
Oklahoma Says J&J ‘Deceitful’ Marketing Fed Opioid Epidemic; J&J Denies Wrongdoing May 29, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson’s greed for more sales of its addictive opioid painkillers helped create a deadly epidemic in Oklahoma that...
Teva to Pay Oklahoma $85 Million to Avoid Trial Over Opioid Marketing May 27, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Anders Melin Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. agreed to pay $85 million to settle an Oklahoma lawsuit claiming that illegal marketing of its...
Opioid Litigation Tests Public Nuisance Claim Theory May 27, 2019 By Jef Feeley Determining who foots the bill for America’s growing opioid epidemic may depend on how well the state of Oklahoma deploys...