While all three chains have vowed to appeal, this ruling is a massive win for plaintiffs who argued that opioid manufacturers and retailers violated “public nuisance”...
The ruling doesn’t necessarily mean that the 3,000 other cases across the country using similar argumentation against Johnson & Johnson are now automatically dead on arrival. ...
As part of a more than $8 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to...
Five pharmaceutical companies reached a $261 million settlement to avoid a lawsuit that accused them of contributing to the opioid crisis. The settlements were reached around...
An Oklahoma judge admitted he made a $107 million miscalculation on the $572 million Johnson & Johnson fine that the company was ordered to pay the...
A federal judge has ruled that a proposed safe injection site for opioid users, the first of its kind in the United States, does not violate...
Purdue Pharma reached a potential $12 billion settlement with 23 states and more than 2,000 individual cases accusing the company of driving the country’s opioid crisis....
In a landmark decision, a judge ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572 million to the state of Oklahoma for deceptive opioid marketing and for significantly...
North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed House Bill 474 on Monday, also known as the “death by distribution” act. Under the new law, anyone illegally selling...
Several former executives of Insys Therapeutics were found guilty of racketeering charges stemming from the opioid crisis. Five people, including the company’s founder, John Kapoor, were...
