October 26, 2021
Scorched by cover-up claims in nationwide opioid litigation, Endo Pharmaceuticals is hoping for heroics from a Skadden squad that is belatedly revealing vast volumes of drug marketing records, a strategy that could simultaneously snuff out some discovery deficiencies and fuel new doubts about the drugmaker's initial transparency.
October 25, 2021
Jurors weighing a New York opioid case heard Monday from one of the final live defense witnesses in the long-running trial, a psychiatrist who worked to discredit earlier testimony by a Stanford doctor about rates of opioid addiction.
October 25, 2021
The Ohio federal judge presiding over the bellwether opioid trial brought by two Ohio counties against pharmacies on Monday denied the defendants' bid for a mistrial, which they had sought on the grounds that a juror conducted her own research in defiance of the court's orders.
October 19, 2021
Teva Pharmaceuticals is scrambling to stop jurors in a New York opioid trial from viewing internal videos that transformed famous film scenes into parodies of narcotic painkiller marketing, warning that the clips are so provocative they could single-handedly destroy the drugmaker's defense.
October 18, 2021
Walmart on Monday told the Ohio federal judge overseeing two counties' bellwether trial against pharmacies in the opioid multidistrict litigation that their request for sanctions is "ginned up" and based on documents already produced that have nothing to do with the counties.
October 06, 2021
A Cleveland federal jury weighing groundbreaking claims against opioid-dispensing pharmacies heard testimony Wednesday that Walgreens "colluded" with Purdue Pharma to drive sales, allegedly welcoming the drugmaker to sell to its supervisors and handing over pharmacy sales data.
October 05, 2021
Jurors in the first trial over pharmacies' alleged role in fueling the opioid crisis heard seemingly contradictory opening statements on Tuesday from CVS and Walmart, whose attorneys alternately claimed the chains have almost no control over what's dispensed but also maintain independent discretion.
October 04, 2021
The first trial against pharmacies over their alleged roles in the opioid crisis began Monday in Cleveland with a federal jury hearing claims that Walgreens and others' systems to catch illegitimate prescriptions were riddled with holes.
October 01, 2021
The two Ohio counties set to battle national pharmacies starting Monday in a key opioid bellwether have strong steel and manufacturing roots and see the trial as their chance to hold companies accountable for the extreme financial stress the crisis has brought to their already struggling communities.
September 30, 2021
The Cherokee Nation asked an Oklahoma federal judge to remand opioid-related claims against pharmacy companies, including CVS and Walgreens, to state court, arguing there is no longer federal jurisdiction after settling with McKesson, AmerisourceBergen and Cardinal Health earlier this week.