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Lawyers in Opioid MDL Seek Nationwide Class Certification for Potential Settlement

The motion sets up an unprecedented "negotiation class" of 24,500 cities, counties and other small governments that want to resolve claims over the opioid crisis.
8 minute read

Law.com

Alabama Attorney General Voluntarily Dismisses Opioid Case

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall moved to voluntarily dismiss his opioid lawsuit after a judge questioned whether he had federal jurisdiction over the case.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

J&J Loses Bid to Send Talc Case, Set for First Phila. Trial, to Federal Court

U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Tuesday remanded the case to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, denying arguments from the pharmaceutical giant that the case needed to be sent to bankruptcy court in Delaware.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Key Takeaways From the Insys Prosecution

In early May, a jury in Boston ruled that the founder of Insys Therapeutics, John Kapoor, as well as four other executives from the company, were guilty of a racketeering conspiracy.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Insys Therapeutics' General Counsel Kept Behind the Scenes in Plea Deal, Compliance Reforms

Mark Nance's name was not on the five-year deferred prosecution agreement that Insys accepted, nor on the five-year corporate integrity agreement—which the government called an “unprecedented” deal.
5 minute read

Law.com

Opioid Maker Insys Agrees to $225M Deal to Resolve DOJ Actions

The agreement, announced Wednesday, resolves civil and criminal allegations that Insys bribed medical professionals to use its opioid painkiller.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

J&J Subsidiary Loses Bid to Move Mesh Mass Tort Cases Out of Philadelphia Area

Ethicon, a J&J subsidiary, had cited intense and allegedly incorrect media attention as the basis for its motion seeking to either have trials moved to a venue outside the five-county Philadelphia area, or have a “pretrial cooling off-period” before beginning the next trial.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Manhattan Jury Adds $300M in Punitive Damages to Verdict in Lawsuit Linking Talc Products to Mesothelioma

The jury announced its decision Friday after three days of trial this week before Justice Gerald Lebovits in his Manhattan courtroom.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pharma Company to Pay $3.5M to Resolve Kickback Claims

A pharmaceutical company accused of illegally using benefits to entice physicians to prescribe its dermatology drugs has settled those claims with the federal government for $3.5 million, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has announced.
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Fiduciary Duty Claims Against Investors Tossed by Del. Chancery Court for Lack of Control

Vice Chancellor Kathaleen S. McCormick ruled Wednesday on a motion to dismiss that investors Robert and Monica Breslow were largely unsuccessful in an alleged effort to seize control of the firm through a board designee, and thus owed no duties CTT, a Delaware limited liability company.
3 minute read

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