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27 Oct 2017, 4:20 am
As prescriptions multiplied, Purdue executives—and the Sackler family members on the company’s board—appeared happy to fund such blandishments. [read post]
22 May 2021, 3:47 pm by Adam Levitin
Yet last year, 39% of large public company bankruptcy filings ended up before a single judge, Judge David R. [read post]
31 Mar 2010, 11:55 pm by Ben Vernia
The relator was a former sales representative for Purdue Pharma, and alleged that the company falsely claimed to physicians that OxyContin was twice as potent - and therefore cheaper per dose - than its predecessor drug, MS Contin. [read post]
29 Aug 2018, 1:39 pm by Erin McCarthy Holliday
The Canadian province of British Columbia filed a class action lawsuit [press release] Wednesday in the Supreme Court of British Columbia [official website] targeting 40 pharmaceutical manufacturers, including maker of OxyContin Purdue Pharma. [read post]
19 Jul 2022, 7:25 am by Ben Vernia
On June 18, the Department of Justice announced that a California pain specialist had agreed to pay over $270,000 to settle allegations that he received kickbacks from two pharmaceutical companies to prescribe their drugs, including opioids. [read post]
Last year Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges for its marketing of OxyContin and other opioid products, admitting its tactics contributed to the nation’s opioid epidemic. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 3:55 pm by Joe Consumer
But when I think of the creators of the opioid epidemic and their “tort reform” apologists – including OxyContin makers Purdue Pharma and its generic cousin Rhodes, the Sackler family which controls Purdue, and groups like the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) and the U.S. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 3:55 pm by Joe Consumer
But when I think of the creators of the opioid epidemic and their “tort reform” apologists – including OxyContin makers Purdue Pharma and its generic cousin Rhodes, the Sackler family which controls Purdue, and groups like the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) and the U.S. [read post]
19 Mar 2024, 3:30 am by Maureen Carroll
Maureen Carroll By the end of this Term, SCOTUS must decide what to do about the mammoth Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement. [read post]
3 Dec 2023, 5:29 am by Abbe R. Gluck
The question on which the court granted review in Purdue Pharma’s case looks deceptively narrower: whether, as part of the bankruptcy deal for Purdue, the manufacturer of OxyContin, the owners of the company, the Sackler family, could be shielded from all civil liability in exchange for a $6 billion contribution to the settlement. [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]
1 Aug 2019, 4:17 am by Edith Roberts
For The New York Times, Adam Liptak reports that, “[s]aying the opioid crisis requires bold measures, the state of Arizona filed an audacious lawsuit in the Supreme Court on Wednesday asking the justices to order members of the Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, to return what the state said were billions of dollars looted from the company. [read post]
17 Jul 2019, 6:58 am by Robert Kraft
” According to the article, the “results reflect a perilous moment for drugmakers and distributors like Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and McKesson,” which are “some of the biggest companies in the U.S. and were once among the most trusted. [read post]
5 Feb 2021, 12:28 pm by luiza
Documents uncovered in various lawsuits and investigations showed McKinsey’s ongoing work with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. [read post]
10 May 2012, 7:36 am by Kay Van Wey
Three pharmaceutical companies are being investigated in the Senate probe, including Purdue Pharma, Endo Pharmaceuticals, and Johnson & Johnson. [read post]
18 Apr 2022, 8:11 am by Dan Bressler
The opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma, beleaguered and in financial trouble, wanted to revamp its business, and an executive there sought out Dr. [read post]
In 2017, Oklahoma sued J&J, Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceuticals under the state’s public nuisance statute alleging that the drug manufacturers deceptively marketed opioids within the state. [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 12:19 am by Kelly
(IP Whiteboard) Australia: A tale of four amendment requests: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company v. [read post]