Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new opioid settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits.

Purdue Pharma, the maker of the painkiller OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, have agreed to a historic $7.4 billion settlement in a lawsuit stemming from the deadly toll of their drug.

Purdue Pharma, under the leadership of the Sackler family, manufactured and sold opioids like Oxycontin for decades.

It’s among the largest settlements reached over the past several years in a series of lawsuits by local, state, Native American tribal governments and others seeking to hold companies responsible for ...

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UnitedHealth Group will promote Tim Noel, who most recently led the company’s Medicare and retirement business, to replace Brian Thompson, the slain CEO of its UnitedHealthcare arm.

Massachusetts residents who lost relatives to opioid overdoses expressed elation Thursday after the family that built its fortune on the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin agreed to a new deal to ...

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Purdue Parma and the Sackler Family that controlled it have settled a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of 15 ...

Purdue Pharma and its owner, the Sackler family, will pay $7.4 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits. Those lawsuits alleged oxycontin pain medication led to the U.S. opioid addiction crisis. North ...

North Carolina will get a cut of a nationwide opioid settlement. Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners agreed to more than $7 billion. It is tied to claims that OxyContin caused a widespread ...