It was 2014, and the company the family had controlled for two generations, Purdue Pharma, had been hit with years of investigations and lawsuits over its marketing of the highly addictive opioid ...

Bankruptcy is an “option” for drug maker Purdue Pharma in light of numerous lawsuits against them and others in connection with the nation’s opioid epidemic, the Washington Post reports. One of those ...

Attorneys for a Pennsylvania healthcare giant are denying allegations its employees negligently caused the death of a woman in their care in November 2023, according to documents filed last month.

Dec 8, Reuters - West Virginia sued United HealthGroup on Monday in federal court, alleging that the company’s pharmacy benefit manager Optum fueled the state’s opioid crisis by oversupplying its ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Drugmaker Teva announced Tuesday that it has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The Smith County Commissioners Court decided Tuesday how to divide funds related to lawsuits filed over the opioid crisis. The $300,000 available came from settlements in ...

May 2 (Reuters) - Drug distributor McKesson Corp has agreed to pay $37 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of West Virginia alleging it helped fuel a U.S. opioid epidemic by failing to stop ...

Victims of the opioid crisis may lose a billion dollars in settlement money. The big Irish drugmaker Mallinckrodt is in negotiations to slash the amount paid to communities as part of an opioid deal ...