Pain-Relieving Drugs
‘You Murdered My Daughter’: Relatives of OxyContin Victims Confront the Sacklers
While state and local governments will divide up billions from the Sacklers and Purdue for treatment and prevention programs, if the current draft — or some approximation — of the Purdue bankruptcy and settlement plan were adopted, individual victims will get far less. They can apply for compensation from a fund of up to $750 […]
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Sacklers and Purdue Reach Settlement as Opioids Crisis Continues
After hundreds of hours of negotiations mediated by Judge Shelley Chapman of federal bankruptcy court, the Sacklers also agreed to a series of other new terms. In addition to the Sackler statement, which Mr. Tong characterized as an “apology,” Judge Chapman is recommending a hearing that would allow people who suffered from addiction to OxyContin […]
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Judge Overturns Purdue Pharma’s Opioids Settlement
Under the crush of thousands of lawsuits, Purdue filed for bankruptcy restructuring in September 2019, which automatically put a hold on all the claims against it. Nearly two years later, Judge Robert Drain, the bankruptcy court judge in White Plains, N.Y., confirmed a plan that had been approved by a majority of creditors who voted. […]
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