Trumbull County joined the settlement with Lake County to receive a combined $5 million. Commissioners say Trumbull County ...

Westmoreland County has signed on to the settlement of a federal lawsuit with the makers of Oxycontin. The $7 billion overall ...

Alaska signed on to a $7.4 billion national Purdue settlement last month, which could bring the state more than $12 million.

Trumbull County will join with Lake County in the Purdue / Sackler drug settlement that will allow them to receive up to $5 million in two payments over the next year. The first payment will be ...

Fifty-five state attorneys general have agreed to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family over their role in fueling the opioid crisis.

Purdue Pharma will pay the remaining $900 million once its bankruptcy protections end. Utah’s $57 million cut will add to a $540 million pot of money received through earlier settlements.

A narrowly divided Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision struck down a hard-fought bankruptcy plan for OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma that would have awarded $6 billion to state and local ...

Arkansas will receive $44.5 million of a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family for their role in the United States’ opioid epidemic.

Last month, attorneys general from 55 U.S. states and territories as well as the District of Columbia approved a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma, the maker of opioid painkiller OxyContin.

FILE - Protesters who have lost love ones to the opioid crisis protest outside a courthouse in Boston, Aug. 2, 2019, where a judge heard arguments in a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma.

In the Massachusetts lawsuit, Purdue Pharma denied that their company is to blame for the opioid crisis, charging they are a scapegoat. "The Department of Health further found that the epidemic of ...