Elkins City Council will look at authorizing participation in the more than $7 billion nationwide opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family during Thursday’s council meeting. Council ...

Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan, which would give Sackler family immunity, moves forward The company can begin soliciting support for its Chapter 11 reorganization plan.

Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription ...

Last week, Cottonwood and Camp Verde councils voted to take part in the disbursement of funds paid out from the national ...

A mediator reported on Tuesday that members of the Sackler family that own Purdue Pharma and U.S. states opposed to the OxyContin-maker's bankruptcy exit plan are "even closer" to a settlement ...

The Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan would allocate billions of dollars to help ease the nation’s opioid crisis, but shield the Sackler family from future lawsuits.

Purdue Pharma, the maker of the painkiller OxyContin, said it has filed for bankruptcy as part of a plan to settle lawsuits accusing the company of fueling the opioid crisis.

More than two decades after Purdue Pharma launched its blockbuster pain pill OxyContin, a judge approved a bankruptcy plan Wednesday that will grant the drugmaker’s billionaire owners sweeping ...

Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company's alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed ...

In the Massachusetts lawsuit, Purdue Pharma denied that their company is to blame for the opioid crisis, charging they are a scapegoat. "The Department of Health further found that the epidemic of ...