Pandemic-Delayed Trials Over Drugmakers’ Marketing of Opioids to Begin April 19, 2021 By Nate Raymond and Brendan Pierson Four drugmakers, including Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., will go to trial on Monday over claims they...
Closely-Watched Oklahoma Public Nuisance Case Over Opioids Now in Judge’s Hands August 1, 2019 By Nate Raymond Oklahoma’s attorney general on Wednesday made his final bid to force Johnson & Johnson to pay $17 billion for its...
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...
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...
Illinois Attorney General Reaches $4.5M Settlement in Opioid Marketing Case August 22, 2017 Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has reached a $4.5 million settlement with an Arizona-based pharmaceutical company that her office sued...