Record $240M Opioid Settlement Against Purdue Pharma
Purdue Pharma, makers of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, have settled with the state of Oklahoma for a record $240 million. This is Purdue’s third and largest state settlement yet. The drug manufacturer still faces thousands of other pending local, city and state suits, including a 1,600 case consolidated federal suit against Purdue and other drug manufacturers, […]
“Major Step Forward” in Opioid Suits
“I did a little math. About 150 Americans are going to die today, just today, while we’re meeting.” -Judge Dan Polster October 5, 2018, U.S. Magistrate Judge David Ruiz of the Northern District of Ohio submitted for approval his report and recommendation in a key a case involving the opioid crisis to U.S. District Judge […]
MI Law May Prevent Recovery of Millions Spent Fighting Opioid Crisis
As the nation’s opioid crisis continues 162 of the 600 people recently charged with healthcare fraud were healthcare professionals who contributed to the nation’s fastest and most deadly epidemic. Conducted nationwide, this was the largest health care fraud investigation. Last year, more than 400 people were charged, 115 of them were doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals […]
Sheller Panelist on Penn Law’s Legal Response to Opioid Conference
Sheller PC’s founder, Stephen Sheller, joined other litigators, judges and state prosecutors at a conference to discuss the legal response to the opioid crisis. The forum was hosted by University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL). The panel in which Sheller participated, Corporate Responsibility and Civil Law Solutions, […]
More Lawsuits Against Opioid Makers, Feds Assist Cities/States
More than 100 states, cities, counties and other public entities have filed opioid-related lawsuits against the drug manufacturers in 2017. The lawsuits being filed continue into 2018 including the city of Philadelphia who has enlisted Sheller PC and other high profile plaintiff’s firms to assist the city in the lawsuit. The suit included drug manufactures […]
Sheller Joins Phila. in Suit Against Opioid Manufacturers
Sheller PC is one of five private law firms assisting the city of Philadelphia’s Law Department in its suit against pharmaceutical companies attempting to hold them accountable for the current opioid crisis. Five pharmaceutical companies are named in the suit: Allergan, Janssen (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson and manufacturer of Risperdal), Endo, Cephalon, and […]
