Teva Settles Oklahoma Opioid Case for $85 Million

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Teva's $85 million settlement with Oklahoma comes days before the company was set to defend itself at a landmark trial amid some 2,000 lawsuits brought by states and local municipalities against pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. agreed Sunday to pay $85 million to resolve claims by the state of Oklahoma that the company’s marketing helped fuel a rise in opioid addiction.

The deal comes days before Teva was set to defend itself at a landmark trial, the first to unfold out of some 2,000 lawsuits brought by states and local municipalities against pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis.

 

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$85 million isn’t even a drop in the bucket of these criminals profits.

GOP investors, “The greatest evils in our World manifest from illegal immigrants...Build that wall!”

Teva is going to have to raise their drug prices 10 fold or higher to pay for these settlements due to their own greed. No criminal charges for the 100's of thousands dead from Opioids ?

Break him take all his money and other Worth!! Killing people!!

Teva is on a mission to make Americans Drug addicts...no doubt about it.

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