Most of the settlement would have been funded by members of the Sackler family who owned and ran Purdue Pharma, and agreed to pay $6 billion into the compensation pot. In exchange, the Sacklers ...

But the Purdue Pharma settlement would have been only the second so far to include direct payments to victims from a $750 million pool. Payouts would have ranged from about $3,500 to $48,000.

As the nation continues to grapple with the opioid epidemic, the Sackler family had agreed to pay $6 billion to families and states as part of an agreement to wind down Purdue Pharma, the maker of ...

In a 5-4 ruling, the US Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an opioid settlement plan worth billions ... the pharmaceutical company they ran, Purdue Pharma, maker of OxyContin, according to the ...

That settlement would have forever protected the Sacklers – as well as hundreds of affiliates and other Purdue Pharma insiders – from all opioid-related civil claims. Because the Sacklers have ...

WASHINGTON — Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge late Tuesday ... heroin and more recently illicit versions of fentanyl. This settlement plan was hammered out in months of mediation involving ...

Purdue Pharma has filed a new bankruptcy plan as part of a $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits over the company’s alleged role in the opioid crisis, months after the Supreme ...

After deliberating more than six months, the justices in a 5-4 vote blocked an agreement hammered out with state and local governments and victims. The Sacklers would have contrib ...