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...
Oklahoma’s Opioid Trial Against Drugmakers J&J, Teva Set to Begin May 24, 2019 By Nate Raymond Gail Box vividly remembers the day in May 2011 when she first learned her 22-year-old son Austin, a University of...
Oklahoma Lawmakers not so Happy About Purdue Pharma Settlement April 7, 2019 By Sean Murphy, The Associated Press A $270 million settlement between the state of Oklahoma and the maker of OxyContin praised last week as an innovative...
Oklahoma Alters Suit Against Opioid Drugmakers Before Trial April 5, 2019 By Andrew Harris, Bloomberg and Jef Feeley The state of Oklahoma narrowed its case against drug makers including Johnson & Johnson, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Allergan...
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...
Oklahoma Judge Denies Purdue Pharma Bid to Delay Landmark Opioid Trial March 11, 2019 By Nate Raymond OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and two other drugmakers on Friday lost a bid to delay a landmark trial set...
Drug Companies Seek Delay in Oklahoma Opioid Trial March 7, 2019 Pharmaceutical companies have asked for a 100-day postponement of an Oklahoma trial accusing them of fraudulently marketing drugs that have...