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 ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits ...

Attorney General Patrick Morrisey The Supreme Court rejects a nationwide opioid settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma According to the release, if the Supreme Court had allowed the plan to ...

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 ...

The justices, in a 5-4 decision, ruled the settlement deal providing some ... The Sackler family and its company Purdue Pharma – makers of the highly addictive, synthetic opioid Oxycontin ...

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 ...

The $7.4 billion payment to 55 U.S. states and territories is intended to resolve claims that the drugmaker's pain medication OxyContin caused a nationwide opioid addiction crisis.

A bipartisan coalition of states has reached a $7.4 billion settlement in principle with members of the Sackler family and their former company Purdue Pharma over their role in the opioid crisis.

The news that Purdue Pharma had reached a settlement deal Wednesday over its alleged role in the nation's opioid crisis isn't winning any favor with Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser.

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 ...