Purdue Pharma paid CEO $9M in year before bankruptcy

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma paid its CEO $9 million and its board chairman nearly $4 million in the 12 months before the company’s bankruptcy filing last month, according to recently filed financial documents. Five other board members overseeing the private company were paid a combined $3.7 million over that span. Purdue, a privately held company... Read More

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Opioids, Purdue Pharma

October 25, 2019

Governor: Ohio making plans to divide future opioid dollars

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Some 100 lawyers and government officials from across Ohio have made a “positive start” on deciding how millions of dollars that communities might receive through national opioid litigation settlements should be spent, said Gov. Mike DeWine. DeWine said a meeting he convened Wednesday involving the state attorney general, lawyers for cities... Read More

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Opioids

October 22, 2019

$260 million deal averts 1st federal trial on opioid crisis

CLEVELAND (AP) — The nation’s three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker agreed to an 11th-hour, $260 million settlement Monday over the terrible toll taken by opioids in two Ohio counties, averting the first federal trial over the crisis. The trial, involving Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County and Akron’s Summit County, was seen as a critical... Read More

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Opioids

October 21, 2019

Companies reach $260 million deal to settle opioids lawsuit

CLEVELAND (AP) — The nation’s three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker reached a $260 million settlement with two Ohio counties over the deadly havoc wreaked by opioids, just hours before the first federal trial over the crisis was about to begin Monday. The settlement means the closely watched trial will not move forward... Read More

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Opioids

October 7, 2019

Victims gain a voice to help guide Purdue Pharma bankruptcy

Victims of opioid addiction weren’t in the room when OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma persuaded half the state attorneys general to settle claims over the company’s role in the nationwide overdose epidemic. Now that Purdue is in federal bankruptcy court, four people whose lives were touched by addiction have important seats at the table — and... Read More

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Opioids, Purdue Pharma

October 3, 2019

Cities push opioid lawsuits against family that owns Purdue

Local government lawsuits against the family that owns Purdue Pharma should be allowed to proceed even as the company attempts to reach a nationwide settlement in bankruptcy court over the toll of the opioids crisis, according to a court filing on Wednesday. The filing by 19 cities and towns in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and... Read More

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Opioids, Purdue Pharma

October 3, 2019

Colleges got $60M-plus from OxyContin family

BOSTON (AP) — Prestigious universities around the world have accepted at least $60 million over the past five years from the family that owns the maker of OxyContin, even as the company became embroiled in lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic, financial records show. Some of the donations arrived before recent lawsuits blaming Purdue Pharma... Read More

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Opioids

September 20, 2019

Who are the Sacklers, the family behind maker of OxyContin?

For a family with its name on a wing of one of the world’s most famous museums and a school at a prestigious university, members of the Sackler clan have done a remarkable job of vanishing from public life. The family owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, which filed for bankruptcy this week as part of... Read More

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September 19, 2019

Purdue Pharma asks judge to stop lawsuits against Sacklers

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma on Wednesday asked a bankruptcy court judge to halt all lawsuits against the company and its former directors, including members of the Sackler family, which owns the company. The request is a standard ask for a company that’s filed for bankruptcy , as Purdue did this week in an effort to... Read More

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Opioids, Purdue Pharma

September 18, 2019

Purdue Pharma to stay in business as bankruptcy unfolds

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A judge cleared the way Tuesday for OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to stay in business while it pursues bankruptcy protection and settlement of more than 2,600 lawsuits filed against it in a reckoning over the opioid crisis. At the first court hearing since the Chapter 11 filing late Sunday, Purdue... Read More

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Drugs, Opioids, Purdue Pharma

September 13, 2019

Chaotic talks show challenge of reaching opioid settlement

For months, the judge overseeing national litigation over the opioids crisis urged all sides to reach a settlement that could end thousands of lawsuits filed by state and local governments. But the chaotic developments this week in the case against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma underscore how difficult that goal is. By Thursday, half of the... Read More

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Opioids

September 12, 2019

Some states say they’ll keep fighting Purdue Pharma in court

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Courtroom showdowns still face OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and the family that owns it, the Sacklers. But after a tentative settlement reached Wednesday with thousands of local governments and more than 20 states, the fight will be less about the damage done by the company and more over how to divide... Read More

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Opioids, OxyContin, Purdue Pharma

September 9, 2019

Purdue Pharma says settlement talks in opioid cases not over

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and lawyers representing local governments both said Sunday that they’re interested in continuing negotiations to settle lawsuits over the toll of the opioid crisis a day after two state attorneys general told colleagues that their talks with the company were at an impasse and that they expected the company to file... Read More

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Opioids, Purdue Pharma

September 4, 2019

Judge: Drugmakers, others can face trial over opioids crisis

A federal judge overseeing litigation related to the nation’s opioid epidemic ruled Tuesday that lawsuits targeting Purdue Pharma and other drug companies can move to trial even as the OxyContin maker tries to reach a settlement. The ruling was one of several issued by U.S. District Court Judge Dan Polster, who is preparing for a... Read More

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Opioids

Purdue Pharma paid CEO $9M in year before bankruptcy

Governor: Ohio making plans to divide future opioid dollars

$260 million deal averts 1st federal trial on opioid crisis

Companies reach $260 million deal to settle opioids lawsuit

Victims gain a voice to help guide Purdue Pharma bankruptcy

Cities push opioid lawsuits against family that owns Purdue

Colleges got $60M-plus from OxyContin family

Who are the Sacklers, the family behind maker of OxyContin?

Purdue Pharma asks judge to stop lawsuits against Sacklers

Purdue Pharma to stay in business as bankruptcy unfolds

Chaotic talks show challenge of reaching opioid settlement

Some states say they’ll keep fighting Purdue Pharma in court

Purdue Pharma says settlement talks in opioid cases not over

Judge: Drugmakers, others can face trial over opioids crisis

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