September 21, 2020
A handful of U.S. senators urged a New York bankruptcy judge Monday to reject a compensation proposal that could see Purdue Pharma CEO Craig Landau pocket a bonus of up to $3.5 million, calling the possibility an "affront" to victims of the opioid crisis.
September 17, 2020
Purdue Pharma LP is asking a New York bankruptcy court to extend the injunction blocking thousands of suits against it over its role in the opioid crisis until March, saying that allowing the stay to expire in October would scuttle the progress it's made in its reorganization efforts.
December 10, 2019
Two dozen states opposed to Purdue Pharma's opioid crisis settlement are asking the bankrupt OxyContin maker to take nine actions to reduce the number of overdose deaths nationwide, saying that in the first half of 2019 alone in Massachusetts, more than two patients prescribed the drug died from overdoses each week.