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23 Oct 2020, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
Department of Justice announced that Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges related to the company’s distribution of its opioid painkiller OxyContin. [read post]
” The post Purdue Pharma to plead guilty for role in opioid crisis appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 12:18 pm by Anna Salvatore
The Justice Department announced today that Purdue Pharma, the maker of the opioid OxyContin, agreed to a $8 billion settlement and will pled guilty to three federal charges. [read post]
21 Oct 2020, 11:53 am by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, Justice Department officials announced Wednesday. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 12:00 am by Katharine Van Tassel
David Konarske (Michigan State University), Transparency as Justice: The Ethics of Public Attorneys and Judicial Seals, SSRN: In 2004, the State of West Virginia settled a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP accusing the company of pushing pills by understating the... [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 4:36 am by Jon L. Gelman
In June 2018, the AG’s Office announced a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma and its board members and executives for illegally marketing opioids and profiting from opioid epidemic. [read post]
27 May 2020, 6:21 am by Robert Kraft
” The Post says that “while Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and other manufacturers are often linked to the opioid crisis, it was two subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson…that were producing the narcotics in many of the abused pills. [read post]
25 May 2020, 6:30 am by Robert Kraft
An approximately 4,000-word Washington Post article says that the federal government in 2007 reprimanded Purdue Pharma, “fining the drugmaker and three of its executives a record $634 million for misbranding its blockbuster OxyContin pill as safer and less addictive than other painkillers,” but during the decade preceding that fine, the company “helped change the culture of prescribing opioids through an extensive marketing campaign that persuaded… [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 11:58 am by HowardGutman
Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy and Opportunity to Present Claims  Following revelations of wrongdoing, a verdict by a governmental entity, the company declared bankruptcy. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 6:48 am by Robert Kraft
” The company “admitted to the scheme with an unnamed opioid maker, though the details of the government case closely match a public research partnership between Practice Fusion and Purdue Pharma Inc., which makes OxyContin. [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 11:25 am by William Weinberg
Most people associate Purdue Pharma with the opioid crisis that has ravaged parts of this country for years, but Johnson & Johnson also played a huge role in the crisis. [read post]
8 Feb 2020, 11:54 am by Kishan Patel
Some of the biggest companies named in the lawsuit include: Johnson and Johnson Abbott Laboratories Purdue Pharma There are 40 other defendants named in the action. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 6:23 am by Robert Kraft
The Los Angeles Times reports internal Purdue Pharma documents from 2016 “show company officials discussed diverting online traffic away from a series of stories published by the Los Angeles Times that detailed the company’s marketing of OxyContin [oxycodone] and its links to the deadly opioid crisis. [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 1:56 pm by Beth Mole
(credit: Getty | Boston Globe) As the epidemic of opioid abuse and overdoses ravaged the United States—claiming hundreds of thousands of lives—the Sackler family withdrew more than $10 billion from its company, OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 3:52 am by Edith Roberts
” For Capitol Media Services (via Tucson.com), Howard Fischer reports that the case centered on “Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s claim that the Sackler family that owns Purdue Pharma has been looting the company of assets — assets he said need to be preserved should Arizona win a lawsuit against the company pending in Pima County Superior Court. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 2:19 pm by Amy Howe
” In 2007, Purdue Pharma entered into a consent judgment with the state “to resolve the State’s investigation into the company’s misleading marketing of Oxycontin. [read post]
18 Nov 2019, 4:24 am by Whittel & Melton, LLC
Months before the trial, Oklahoma had settled with Purdue Pharma and Teva, an Israel-based manufacturer of generic drugs, for a combined $355 million. [read post]
20 Oct 2019, 5:58 am by Fred Abrams
Banela Corporation allegedly owns all the Class A shares of Purdue Pharma, Inc. [read post]