OxyContin maker offers up to $12B to settle more than 2,000 opioid claims

Source: The Guardian

August 29, 2019 7:52 am

Purdue Pharma and members of the multi-billionaire Sackler family, who own the company that makes the prescription painkiller OxyContin, have offered to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits from U.S. states and cities for between $10 billion and $12 billion.