Drugmaker’s Opioid Settlement Offer Gains Ground With States February 26, 2020 Opioid makers and distributors who proposed paying almost $50 billion to resolve U.S. lawsuits over the addictive drugs are drawing...
States Oppose Trump Proposal to Ship LNG by Rail, Citing Safety Risk January 16, 2020 By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON — Attorneys general from 16 U.S. states have opposed a Trump administration proposal to ship liquefied natural gas (LNG)...
Drug Wholesalers, Teva Settle With Ohio Counties Over Opioids October 21, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Riley Griffin The three largest U.S. drug distributors and a major generic-drug manufacturer have agreed to pay $260 million to settle the...
OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Files for Bankruptcy to Wipe Out 2,000 Lawsuits September 16, 2019 By Jef Feeley and Steven Church Purdue Pharma LP filed for bankruptcy with a more than $10 billion plan to settle claims that it fueled the...
Opioid Deal-Makers Cleared to Represent Cities Across U.S. September 13, 2019 By Jef Feeley A judge approved a bid by U.S. cities and counties suing opioid makers such as Johnson & Johnson and Teva...
Purdue Opioid Deal Pits State Against State on Epidemic Cost September 13, 2019 By Erik Larson and Katherine Doherty Purdue Pharma LP, maker of the highly addictive Oxycontin painkiller, is pitting state against state with its offer of about...
Teva’s Budding Blockbuster Drugs Lend Respite From Legal Concerns August 7, 2019 By Ilya Khrennikov Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is preparing for a potential reckoning with the U.S. epidemic of opioid addiction. The drugmaker’s shares...
Opioid Distributors Propose $10 Billion to End State Claims August 7, 2019 By Jef Feeley McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp. have proposed paying $10 billion to settle claims they helped to fuel...
Purdue Sackler Opioids Trial Boston Latest Updates August 2, 2019 By Janelle Lawrence Massachusetts took Purdue Pharma LP to task in a Boston courtroom Friday, blaming the opioid maker and the billionaire Sackler...
Capital One Touted the Cloud’s Safety as Hacker Was Breaching It July 31, 2019 By Jenny Surane and Lananh Nguyen Capital One Financial Corp., in recent years, has beat the drum every chance it got: The cloud is cheaper. The...