SCOTUS to Hear Purdue Pharma Settlement Plan That’s Dividing Opioid Victims November 27, 2023 By Geoff Mulvihill and Mark Sherman The agreement by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harm done by opioids could help...
Purdue Pharma’s Sacklers Increase Opioid Settlement Offer to $4.3B: Reuters March 12, 2021 By Mike Spector Members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma LP have offered roughly $4.3 billion to resolve sprawling opioid litigation,...
Ohio AG: Opioid Settlement Should Be Spent Locally September 20, 2019 By Julie Carr Smyth Any money Ohio might receive from a settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and other drugmakers should be spent at...
Facing Thousands of Opioid Lawsuits, Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy Protection September 16, 2019 By Mike Spector OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday night, succumbing to pressure from more than 2,600 lawsuits alleging...
Drug Maker Endo Skirts Trial, Settles Its Opioid Claims for $11 Million August 21, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin Endo International Plc agreed to an $11 million settlement to avoid going to trial in the first federal court cases...
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...
How Insys Bankruptcy Case Could Alter Fate of Thousands of Opioid Lawsuits June 28, 2019 By Mike Spector and Nate Raymond The fate of thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic hinges in part...
Judge Open to ‘Novel’ Idea of Local Government Class for Opioid Settlement Talks June 26, 2019 By Jef Feeley A judge backed a push by U.S. cities and counties suing opioid makers such as Purdue Pharma LP and Johnson...
Opioid Lawsuits Unlikely to Top Tobacco Settlements June 25, 2019 By Martin Z. Braun An Oklahoma case, the first of more than 1,600 lawsuits filed by U.S. state and local governments against opioid makers...
Purdue to Settle Oklahoma’s Opioids Lawsuit Weeks Before Trial to Open March 26, 2019 By Nate Raymond Purdue Pharma LP has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the state of Oklahoma accusing the OxyContin painkiller maker of...