Supreme Court Heard Arguments to Challenge OxyContin Settlement
The Supreme Court heard arguments related to a challenge to the bankruptcy deal that’s intended to compensate victims of highly addictive pain killer OxyContin. Based on the questions judges asked, court watchers believe the Court is split. The manufacturer of Oxycontin, Purdue Pharma, entered into a deal to pay billions to people harmed by the opioids they made and sold. That deal protected members of the Sackler family from personal liability. If you were injured by Oxycontin or another highly addictive pain killer, you should call the seasoned Chicago-based dangerous drug lawyers of Moll Law Group. Billions have been recovered in product liability lawsuits with which we’ve been involved.
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The case that the Court is hearing arose from complex circumstances. The Sackler family took assets from the manufacturer of Oxycontin, Purdue Pharm and shifted those assets overseas, which then triggered the problem that the company no longer has enough money to pay its creditors, such as those injured by pain killer. Purdue Pharma pled guilty to three criminal charges by 2020. It agreed that it owed $8 billion in criminal and civil fines to state and local governments trying to address the opioid crisis.
Based on this, the company reached a deal in bankruptcy court that would reimburse victims of the epidemic along with the harmed by an amount less than it might have paid, had it not shifted its assets overseas.