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3 days ago · A $9bn legal settlement agreed between Purdue Pharma, the drug company whose misleading marketing helped to trigger the US opioid epidemic, and more than 600 states, cities, and native tribes will have to be renegotiated after the US Supreme Court struck down clauses that would have protected Purdue’s owners, the Sackler family, from litigation by opioid victims who had not accepted the ...
5 days ago · ‘Empire of Pain’ author Patrick Radden Keefe discusses a Supreme Court ruling that could cause a reckoning for the reviled Sackler family, who helped usher in the opioid epidemic.
4 days ago · Three physician brothers — Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler — bought the drug company known as Purdue Frederick in 1952. Arthur, the oldest, was a pioneer of marketing drugs, including ...
5 days ago · Supreme Court Rejects Purdue Pharma Opioid Settlement. July 1, 2024. The ruling threatens a massive bankruptcy plan that would have protected the Sackler family, which controls the company ...
4 days ago · States that sued Purdue Pharma LP over its opioid tactics agreed to additional mediation following the US Supreme Court decision that struck down liability shields for members of the billionaire Sackler family that own the company.
4 days ago · According to a recent report that appeared in the New York Times, the Supreme Court’s rejection of liability protections for the company’s owners, the Sackler family, has put the settlement, which has been years in the making, at risk of collapsing.
5 days ago · The article implies that the Sackler family bears some responsibility for the opioid epidemic in the United States. In 2019, The New York Times ran a piece confirming that Richard Sackler, the son of Raymond Sackler, told company officials in 2008 to "measure our performance by Rx's by strength, giving higher measures to higher strengths".
