A judge on Wednesday is asked to clarify the path for local governments and individual victims to coordinate them.
Government companies, emergency doctors, insurers, families of children who were born to retreat from the powerful prescription pain relievers, individual victims and their families and others until September 30th to coordinate whether the deal is accepted that the company has up to 7 billion US dollars over 15 years.
If it were admitted, the agreement in a wave of complaints in the past ten years would have been the largest because governments and other attempted to blame drug manufacturers, wholesalers and pharmacies for the opioid epidemic, which rose in the years after the climb of the Oxykontin in 1996. The other settlements are with a value of 50 billion US dollars, and the money, and the money that money is pleased, are assumed that the use of money is applied. fight the crisis.
In the early 2000s, most opioid deaths were associated with prescription medication, including oxycontin. Since then, heroin and then illegally produced fentanyl have become the largest murderer. In a few years, the drug class was associated with more than 80,000 deaths, but this number be keen last year.
The application of the US insolvency court, Sean Lane The Supreme Court of the United States declined An earlier version of Purdues proposed settlement. The court found that it was inappropriate that the former iteration would have protected members of the sackler family from legal proceedings against opioids, even though they themselves did not register insolvency protection.
Under the revised plan With lawyers for state and local governments and other groups that do not choose the settlement, the right to sue members of the wealthy family, the name of which once adopted the museum galleries around the world and the programs on several prestigious US universities.
As part of the plan, the members of the Sackler family would give up ownership of Purdue. They resigned from the company’s board and received the distributions from his funds before the company’s first bankruptcy registration in 2019.
Most of the money would go to state and local governments to tackle addiction and overdose crises of the nation, but more than 850 million US dollars might go directly to individual victims. This is different from the other important settlements.
The withdrawals would only begin after a hearing for November 10, in which Lane is to be asked to approve the entire plan if enough of the parties concerned agree.
