Pur­due Phar­ma pro­pos­es $12B set­tle­ment to clean up opi­oid mess — re­port

Af­ter months of ne­go­ti­a­tions with states and fed­er­al plain­tiffs ac­cus­ing it of in­sti­gat­ing the opi­oid cri­sis through ag­gres­sive and de­cep­tive mar­ket­ing tac­tics, Pur­due Phar­ma is ready to pay $10 to $12 bil­lion to set­tle it all.

The po­ten­tial deal would cov­er hun­dreds of law­suits be­ing waged against the com­pa­ny by states, cities, towns and tribes, which is be­ing over­seen by Unit­ed States dis­trict judge Dan Pol­ster in Cleve­land, along­side cas­es in­volv­ing oth­er pre­scrip­tion opi­oid mak­ers. As part of the deal, the Sack­ler fam­i­ly — who had been charged with build­ing a “multi­bil­lion-dol­lar drug em­pire based on ad­dic­tion” — will give up own­er­ship in Pur­due.

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