Stephen Sheller Honored as The Legal’s 2020 Pennsylvania Trailblazer
2020 Pennsylvania Trailblazers brought to you by The Legal Intelligencer Watch: Deadly Drugs – Johnson & Johnson’s Risperdal
Pharma Execs Admits to Deceptive Marketing of Opioids
In a rare admission to PBS Frontline & the Finical Times, a pharmaceutical executive acknowledged that he knowingly orchestrated an illegal scheme to boost sales of a powerful opiate painkiller believing there would be no consequences for him personally. Alec Burlakoff, Insys’ former head of sales received a 26-month sentence for charges related his role in the pharmaceutical company which […]
“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 […]