OxyContin maker Purdue agrees to settle Oklahoma opioid case, source says

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The settlement is the first stemming from a wave of recent lawsuits over the drugmaker’s marketing of painkillers

The settlement with Oklahoma Attorney-General Mike Hunter came just weeks before Purdue, owned by members of the wealthy Sackler family, faced the first trial stemming from about 2,000 lawsuits nationally against opioid manufacturers. The trial was to be televised.Hunter’s 2017 lawsuit accused Purdue, Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. of deceptive marketing that downplayed the risks of addiction associated with opioid pain drugs while overstating their benefits.

A trial judge earlier this month rejected the companies’ efforts to delay the trial. On Monday, the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected their appeal of that decision. Purdue’s settlement with Oklahoma relieves the immediate pressure on the drugmaker for a bankruptcy filing, said Alexandra Lahav, a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She said the company likely was also in talks with others to settle.“This may be the start of the dominoes falling for Purdue,” Lahav said.

 

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