April 7, 2025
Viatris said on Monday it would pay up to $335 million over nine years as part of a nationwide settlement to resolve opioid-related claims against the drugmaker. Shares of the Pennsylvania-based company, formed by the merger of Mylan and Pfizer’s …
January 24, 2025
Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that the pain medication OxyContin caused a widespread opioid addiction crisis in the U.S., several state attorneys general said Thursday. …
January 13, 2025
Kentucky will receive $110 million to settle its lawsuit accusing one of the nation’s largest grocery chains of helping fuel the opioid epidemic, the state’s attorney general said Thursday. The state will use the money it is getting in its …
June 10, 2024
A court-appointed panel on Friday recommended how to divvy up a pool of $2.13 billion in legal fees from nationwide drug industry settlements over the U.S. opioid crisis, with top firms set to receive hundreds of millions of dollars. The …
January 3, 2024
McKinsey & Co. is poised to pay $78 million to health insurers and company benefit plans, in its latest settlement of lawsuits over its role advising opioid makers in their sales of the painkillers. The proposed accord, filed in federal …
October 16, 2023
Debt-laden Rite Aid filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday and said it would close underperforming stores, as the drugstore chain comes under pressure from lawsuits alleging that it helped fuel the U.S. opioid crisis. The filing will allow it to …
September 8, 2023
Kroger on Friday said it would pay as much as $1.4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits by U.S. states, local governments and Native American tribes claiming the supermarket chain’s pharmacies helped fuel the nation’s opioid epidemic. Kroger agreed to …
June 26, 2023
Mallinckrodt Plc has for the second time reached an agreement to further delay a $200 million opioid settlement payment that was due earlier this month as the company continues to evaluate its options for addressing its debt load. The drugmaker …
June 22, 2023
McKinsey & Co. is beefing up its ethics department after a series of high-profile controversies, including helping Purdue Pharma LP “turbocharge” opioid sales. The management consulting giant is hiring for a newly created position with its global “ethics allegations management …
June 16, 2023
A major US opioid settlement is on the verge of unraveling. Mallinckrodt Plc, the drugmaker that first began producing morphine and codeine in 1898, owes states, hospitals, tribes, individuals and others hurt by the opioid crisis $200 million by the …