disaster. these companies have insisted they haven t done anything wrong, they re sure they ll win, they re innocent, happy to fight. in the wake of a big verdict against one manufacturer this week, nbc news broke the news that purdue fapharma is trying figure out a way to open its checkbook and make this go away once and for all. it s being reported that the sackler family would give up ownership, hand over $3 billion personally as a family. don t worry, they d still be billionaires. they d also have their company declared bankruptcy. those terms were supposed to be private. the judge imposed a strict gag order. but somehow the news broke anyway. the a.p. furthers the story today saying the sackler family wants this settlement to not only get them off the hook, they
purdue fapharma considered branching into the treatment business as the company was under fire for the contribution to the opioid crisis itself. the lawsuit names eight members of the sackler family as well as the company and current and former executives. the family did not respond to the wall street journal but purdue did by taking out of context snippets from tens of millions of documents. the complaint filed by the massachusetts attorney general is riddled with inaccurate allegations. 36 states in more than 1,500 cities and counties around the country have sued purdue pharma. one multistate federal lawsuit in 2007 settled for $600 million as part of the plea deal. purdue was accused of misleading and defrauding physicians and consumers with regards to how addictive it is. the sackler family made its