The Office of the Attorney General came to a $7.4 billion settlement with the Sackler family and their company, Purdue Pharma, over their actions leading up to the opioid crisis, which has killed several hundreds of thousands of people in the last two decades.
Purdue Pharma’s Sackler family owners have struck a new agreement to settle mass opioid litigation against them for a total of $6.5 billion, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday.
New York's AG shared news of The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma settlement, while stating "no amount of money" could reverse the destruction caused.
The deal comes after the Supreme Court blocked a controversial bankruptcy plan for Purdue that shielded Sackler family members from future lawsuits.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday a new $7.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler Family for their role in the ongoing US opioid crisis with the
The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma agreed to pay $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said that the state could receive up to $108 million of the settlement money.
Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller.
Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families agreed Thursday to increase their financial contribution to $7.4 billion to resolve mass opioid litigation.
The Sackler family and Purdue Pharma have agreed to pay a $7.4 billion settlement to end federal court claims filed by attorneys general on behalf of 15 states.
Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging that the pain medication OxyContin caused a widespread opioid addiction crisis in the U.
In the latest twist in its efforts to wrap up years of high-profile opioid litigation, the billionaire family behind the now-bankrupt Purdue Pharma, the Sacklers, has come back from last year’s Sup | The billionaire family behind former OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma was denied a bankruptcy protection deal in a high-profile Supreme Court ruling last summer.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia looks to receive as much as $55 million from the announced $74 billion dollar settlement between 13 states and the Sackler Family that ran the drug company Purdue Pharma that produced Oxycontin.