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...
Johnson & Johnson Hit with $25 Million Talc Verdict; Also Cleared by Another Jury May 22, 2019 By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay at least $25 million to a woman who said she contracted a rare...
5 More States Sue Purdue Over OxyContin Marketing May 17, 2019 By Erik Larson and Jef Feeley Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company’s aggressive marketing of...
J&J Strikes Out in Bid to Transfer State Talcum Suits to Federal Court May 10, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Margaret Cronin Fisk Johnson & Johnson failed to get 2,400 state-court cancer lawsuits tied to its baby powder immediately transferred to a federal...
J&J Pinnacle Hip Lawsuits Settlement Said to Cost $1 Billion May 8, 2019 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay about $1 billion to resolve most lawsuits claiming it sold defective metal-on-metal hips that...
More States Could Settle Opioid Suits in Wake of West Virginia’s McKesson Deal May 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley McKesson Corp.’s settlement of an opioid lawsuit with West Virginia — the state with the highest U.S. rate of drug-overdose...
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...