Members of the family that owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma won’t contribute billions to a legal settlement unless they get off the hook for lawsuits.
Read More »Opioid settlement could bring $485M to Maryland, Frosh says
A proposed $26 billion settlement could bring as much as $485 million to Maryland to help address the opioid epidemic, the state's attorney general said.
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Read More »Purdue Pharma opioid exit plan gains steam with more states on board
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s plan to reorganize into a new entity that helps combat the U.S. opioid epidemic got a big boost as 15 states that had previously opposed the new business model now support it.
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Read More »Johnson & Johnson to pay $230M to settle New York opioid claim
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $230 million to New York state to settle claims that the pharmaceutical giant helped fuel the opioid crisis.
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Read More »Opioids settlement will likely be less than expected
Welcome to Monday, the 219th anniversary of the House of Representatives’ breaking in Thomas Jefferson’s favor an Electoral College tie for the presidency between Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Here are some news items to get your week started: — Opioids ...
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Read More »Baltimore man gets 14 years for drug distribution conspiracy
Federal prosecutors say a Maryland man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute opioids and other narcotics.
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Read More »$260M deal averts first federal trial of opioid crisis
CLEVELAND — The nation’s three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker agreed to an 11th-hour, $260 million settlement Monday over the deadly toll taken by opioids in two Ohio counties, averting what would have been the first federal trial ...
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Read More »Somerset Co. files first opioid suit post-Purdue bankruptcy
Somerset County has joined the cavalcade of county and local governments in Maryland that are suing over the opioid crisis, but it is the first Maryland jurisdiction to do so without naming Purdue Pharma, the OxyContin manufacturer that has become the face ...
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Read More »After filing for bankruptcy, Purdue Pharma may not be off the hook
Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy in the first step in a complex, multibillion-dollar plan by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits brought against it by state and local governments over the nation’s deadly opioid disaster. The company ...
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Read More »Big question in opioid suits: How to divide any settlement
The roughly 2,000 state and local governments suing the drug industry over the deadly opioid crisis have yet to see any verdicts or reach any big national settlements but are already tussling with each other over how to divide any ...
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