New York AG ac­cus­es Te­va of ly­ing over opi­oid cri­sis to evade le­gal ac­tion

New York At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Leti­tia James on Mon­day ac­cused Is­rael-based Te­va Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals of ly­ing about how it con­trolled its Amer­i­can sub­sidiary and re­lat­ed opi­oid sales, say­ing the par­ent com­pa­ny made “sig­nif­i­cant and in­ten­tion­al” mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions.

In a fil­ing with the Supreme Court of the State of New York, James is re­quest­ing a hear­ing and an op­por­tu­ni­ty to fig­ure out the full ex­tent of the par­ent com­pa­ny’s mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions. The move comes as Te­va may end up set­tling thou­sands of law­suits for bil­lions of dol­lars, over al­le­ga­tions that its drugs played a role in the opi­oid epi­dem­ic and that Te­va down­played the risks of opi­oid ad­dic­tion.

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