Work Comp Insurers Find Doctors Willing to Bend When Asked to Curb Opioid Use November 12, 2019 By Jim Sams Workers’ compensation insurers are reporting dramatic reductions in opioid use by injured workers. In some cases, all it took was...
J&J Faces 100,000 More Damage Claims After Taking $8 Billion Hit October 14, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin Johnson & Johnson has taken some costly beatings in court this year. And it could get worse. Just last week,...
Special Report: How Judges Added to the Grim Toll of Opioids June 25, 2019 By Benjamin Lesser, Dan Levine, Lisa Girion and Jaimi Dowdell WELCH, West Virginia — The opioid epidemic that has so far killed half a million Americans is routinely blamed on...
Billions at Stake in Opioid Suits, But It’s No Tobacco Windfall June 24, 2019 By Martin Z. Braun An Oklahoma case, the first of more than 1,600 lawsuits filed by U.S. state and local governments against opioid makers...
J&J ‘Did Everything’ to Push Opioids, Oklahoma Witness Says June 12, 2019 By Andrew Harris and Jef Feeley Oklahoma’s star witness told a state judge that Johnson & Johnson pressed doctors to prescribe its painkillers even as the...
Opioid Manufacturer Insys Files for Bankruptcy after Kickback Probe June 10, 2019 Drugmaker Insys Therapeutics Inc filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday amid mounting expenses driven by a U.S. Justice Department probe...
Overdose Victim’s Father Testifies in Oklahoma Opioid Trial of J&J May 29, 2019 By Nate Raymond The father of a university football player who died of a drug overdose provided emotional testimony about the personal cost...
Drug Makers’ Opioid Liability Tied to Untested Legal Theory May 24, 2019 By Jef Feeley Determining who foots the bill for America’s growing opioid epidemic may depend on how well the state of Oklahoma deploys...
McKesson to Pay $37 Million to Resolve West Virginia Opioid Lawsuit May 2, 2019 Drug distributor McKesson Corp has agreed to pay $37 million to resolve a lawsuit by the state of West Virginia...
U.S. Brings First Criminal Case Against Major Drug Distributor Over Opioids April 24, 2019 NEW YORK — The U.S. government on Tuesday filed its first criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company...