New York Accuses Drug Firm Teva of Lying About Opioid Role July 11, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel New York’s attorney general on Monday said Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. lied to evade accountability for helping fuel the state’s...
New York Jury Finds Drugmaker Teva Liable for Fueling Opioid Crisis January 3, 2022 By Brendan Pierson Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. fueled opioid addiction in New York state, a jury found last Thursday, a setback for a...
AbbVie Pays $200M to Settle Opioid Marketing Case Right Before Trial Ends December 9, 2021 By Brendan Pierson AbbVie Inc. agreed to pay $200 million to settle claims by New York that its Allergan unit helped fuel an...
States’ Next Targets for Opioid Settlements Include Pharmacies and Drugmakers July 21, 2021 By Brendan Pierson With a $26 billion nationwide settlement in sight over claims that the three largest U.S. drug distributors and Johnson &...
Facing Deceptive Opioid Marketing Suits, Mallinckrodt Files for Bankruptcy October 12, 2020 Mallinckrodt Plc filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, saddled with lawsuits alleging it fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic and after...
Indivior to Pay $600M to Settle Claims of Deceptive Marketing of Opioid Treatment July 27, 2020 By Nate Raymond Indivior Plc has agreed to pay $600 million and have a subsidiary plead guilty to a felony charge to resolve...
New York Charges Drugmaker Endo with Insurance Fraud Over Opioid Claims June 11, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel New York state filed civil charges on Wednesday accusing Endo International Plc of insurance fraud for misrepresenting the safety and...
Opioid Kickback Probe Cites OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma: Reuters January 29, 2020 By Mike Spector and Tom Hals OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is the unnamed company that surfaced in criminal charging documents filed earlier this week in...
U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Arizona Opioid Claim Against Purdue’s Owners December 9, 2019 By Nate Raymond The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a novel case by Arizona seeking to recover billions of dollars that...
Other Opioid Lawsuit Plaintiffs Welcome Oklahoma Ruling Affirming Public Nuisance August 27, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin While some Johnson & Johnson investors were relieved that the company’s $572 million penalty for fueling Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic wasn’t...