Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, under a new deal that was formally approved by ...

All 50 states agreed Monday to sign a settlement with Purdue Pharma, the company behind the highly addictive opioid Oxycontin, accepting $7.4 billion in payouts and prohibiting the Sackler family ...

Purdue Pharma begins several days of hearings Wednesday to finalize a $7.4 billion bankruptcy restricting plan that no longer fully protects the company’s owners, members of the Sackler families, from ...

A federal judge officially approved drugmaker Purdue Pharma's $7.4 billion deal to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of the opioid epidemic and pay victims, prosecutors in the case told USA ...

Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma must pay billions of dollars to settle a flood of lawsuits over the harms of opioids, in a new deal formally approved by a federal ...

After more than six years of legal wrangling over pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma's culpability for its role in the opioid epidemic, a federal judge has formally approved a bankruptcy settlement ...

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Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge late Tuesday to consider the latest version of its plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin, a deal ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.(AP) — Judge formally approves Purdue Pharma opioid settlement, with Sacklers paying up to $7B and some funds going to victims.