The deal represents an increase over a previous settlement rejected by the Supreme Court because it protected members of the wealthy Sackler family from civil lawsuits even though they were not in ...

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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.

Agents made 538 arrests during workplace raids across the Northeast Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

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

The new settlement reopens a path to ending Purdue’s chapter 11 case, the longest and costliest corporate bankruptcy stemming from the U.S. opioid epidemic.

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 ...

A 12-year-old boy was shot multiple times after throwing a snowball at a car.

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

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 ...