NY Union Local Sues Opioid Makers and Distributors, Accuses Them of Racketeering
Drugmakers "overstated the benefits and trivialized the risk" of long-term opioid use, Sanders Phillips Grossman lawyer Randi Kassan wrote in the complaint.
September 17, 2019 at 05:19 PM
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A New York-based local of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades is suing a long list of people and companies linked to the American pharmaceutical industry, saying that they knowingly misled the public about how opioids and opioid addiction worked.
The Sept. 13 complaint is among the latest in a nationwide series of suits filed by unions whose workers have faced opioid dependence, often after years or decades in physically demanding jobs.
The first named defendant is OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday amid a flood of lawsuits.
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