A federal judge in North Carolina has ruled against a Chubb subsidiary in an attempt to rid itself of defense-cost obligations in opioid-related litigation by enforcing two policy exclusions. According to court documents in U.S. District Court for the Middle …
A major US opioid settlement is on the verge of unraveling. Mallinckrodt Plc, the drugmaker that first began producing morphine and codeine in 1898, owes states, hospitals, tribes, individuals and others hurt by the opioid crisis $200 million by the …
Westfield National Insurance Co. and Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. are not required by their insurance contracts to defend generic drug distributor Quest Pharmaceuticals against dozens of opioid-related lawsuits. According to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, language in the …
AbbVie Inc.’s Allergan unit has reached an agreement to pay more than $2 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits filed by state and local governments over the marketing of its Kadian opioid painkiller, according to people familiar with the matter. …
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries on Tuesday announced a $4.35 billion proposed nationwide settlement that could resolve thousands of lawsuits over the drugmaker’s alleged role in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The proposal calls for Teva to pay state and local governments up …
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries believes it would have to pay around $2.6 billion in cash and medicine to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging it and other drug companies fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic. On the heels of two more state settlements …
Judges on a U.S. appeals court appeared hesitant on Friday to revive a legal shield that would protect members of the Sackler family who own Purdue Pharma from lawsuits related to the prescription opioid OxyContin, a key to ending the …
An Ohio district court correctly granted a pharmaceutical distributor’s motion to remand to state court a case regarding whether its insurer must provide defense in ongoing opioid litigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled. In a …
Angry, defiant and sometimes tearful, more than two dozen Americans whose lives were upended by the opioid crisis finally had their long-awaited chance Thursday to confront in court some members of the family they blame for fueling it. They were …
The judge overseeing Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy on Wednesday approved a $6 billion opioid settlement funded by its Sackler family owners, overruling objections from the Department of Justice and 20 states that opposed the deal. Under the settlement, the Sacklers would …
