Illinois lawsuit filed against top e-cigarette maker
An Illinois teenager who fell ill with a lung disease after vaping for more than a year has sued a leading e-cigarette maker.
Sep 13, 2019
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An Illinois teenager who fell ill with a lung disease after vaping for more than a year has sued a leading e-cigarette maker.
Sep 13, 2019
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For months, the judge overseeing national litigation over the opioids crisis urged all sides to reach a settlement that could end thousands of lawsuits filed by state and local governments.
Sep 13, 2019
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Courtroom showdowns still face OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and the family that owns it, the Sacklers.
Sep 12, 2019
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reached a tentative deal Wednesday with about half the states and thousands of local governments over its role in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic, but criticism by several state attorneys ...
Sep 11, 2019
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State and local governments have sought billions of dollars from Purdue Pharma as a way to hold the company and the family that owns it accountable for the nation's opioid epidemic, a potential payout that is now clouded ...
Sep 8, 2019
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is expected to file for bankruptcy after settlement talks over the nation's deadly overdose crisis hit an impasse, attorneys general involved in the talks said Saturday.
Sep 8, 2019
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E-cigarette giant Juul Labs is facing a mounting number of state and federal investigations into its marketing and sales practices, as a top Trump administration official pledged Friday to use all of the government's regulatory ...
Aug 30, 2019
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A New Jersey judge put a temporary hold on a new law allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drugs.
Aug 15, 2019
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State and local governments suing over the toll of a nationwide opioid crisis agree that companies in the drug industry should be held accountable, but they have differences on who should have the power to strike any settlement, ...
Jun 25, 2019
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Brazil's attorney general's office is suing multinational tobacco companies to recover costs by the public health care system in treating smoking-related illnesses—the first lawsuit of its kind in Latin America.
May 23, 2019
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