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What Drug Companies Have Paid to Settle Claims Over U.S. Opioid Crisis

State attorneys general on Wednesday unveiled a $26 billion settlement with the three largest U.S. drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson to resolve thousands of lawsuits by states and local governments over the companies’ role in the country’s opioid painkiller …

Vegas Hepatitis C Outbreak Cases Get Settlements

Court-ordered talks have yielded settlements in 41 lawsuits involving drug companies blamed for supplying an anesthetic to Las Vegas medical clinics where health officials say patients contracted incurable hepatitis C through unsafe injection practices including the reuse of large vials, …