Purdue Pharma begins several days of hearings Wednesday to finalize a $7.4 billion bankruptcy restricting plan that no longer fully protects the company’s owners, members of the Sackler families, from ...

All 50 states agreed Monday to sign a settlement with Purdue Pharma, the company behind the highly addictive opioid Oxycontin, accepting $7.4 billion in payouts and prohibiting the Sackler family ...

All 50 states as well as Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories have agreed to sign a $7.4 billion settlement with the company and once-prominent family behind OxyContin, officials announced ...

As scrutiny of Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid epidemic intensified during the past dozen years, its owners, members of the Sackler family, withdrew more than $10 billion from the company, ...

The $7.5 billion opioid settlement involving Purdue Pharma took a major step forward Nov. 14 after the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York said it will confirm the company’s ...

Purdue's bankruptcy has dragged on, in large part, due to arguments about proposed legal protections, also known as "third-party releases," from current and future opioid-related litigation that the ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – The Mountain State is set to receive part of a settlement fund from a national lawsuit against a major drug company. West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey announced ...

Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - "Pill Man" made by Frank Huntley of Worcester, Mass., from his opioid prescription pill bottles, is ...

The New York state attorney general’s office said Friday that it had tracked about $1 billion in wire transfers by the Sackler family, including through Swiss bank accounts, suggesting that the family ...

For more than a decade, Norwalk resident Dede Yoder has known about the Stamford-based company that makes the prescription opioid OxyContin. But her understanding of the firm has increased ...