Court Tosses Wyoming Doctor’s Pain Medication Prescription Convictions February 8, 2023 A federal appeals court threw out the convictions of a Wyoming doctor accused of overprescribing powerful pain medication and ordered...
Cardinal Health Seeks Dismissal of Drug Suits in 6 West Virginia Counties June 16, 2017 A pharmaceuticals distributor has asked a federal judge to dismiss lawsuits filed by six West Virginia counties over the opioid...
Massachusetts and Rhode Island Doctor Pleads Guilty for Overprescribing Opioids March 17, 2017 By Denise Lavoie At Dr. Fathalla Mashali’s pain management clinics, the waiting rooms were often so packed with patients that people sat on...
West Virginia Settles Opioid Lawsuits Against 2 More Drug Distributors December 29, 2016 Two major prescription drug distributors have agreed to settle a West Virginia lawsuit alleging they fueled West Virginia’s opioid epidemic...
Report: West Virginia Flooded with Painkillers by Drug Wholesalers December 27, 2016 Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728...
West Virginia Settles Claims Against 3 Drug Companies for $800K November 21, 2016 The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office says it has reached settlements with three more prescription drug wholesalers for $800,000 resolving...
5 Drug Wholesalers to Settle West Virginia Pill Shipment Lawsuit for $4.2M June 28, 2016 Five drug wholesalers have agreed to a $4.2 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging that they shipped an excessive number...
Unsealed Records Show Drug Firms Flooded Rural West Virginia With Painkillers May 27, 2016 Information about pill shipments that prescription drug distributors being sued by the state had sought to keep secret show that...
West Virginia Sues Prescription Drug Wholesaler For ‘Flooding’ State January 11, 2016 By John Raby West Virginia’s attorney general has accused one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical drug wholesalers of flooding the state with tens...
Estate of Oregon Man Files Suit Against Home Care Agency in Death October 23, 2015 The estate of a La Pine man who was paralyzed from the chest down has filed a lawsuit seeking $7.5...