Purdue Pharma proposes larger settlement to exit bankruptcy Plaintiffs suing the opioid maker have initially dismissed the deal as too small 03/16/2021 Photo (c) Darwin Brandis - Getty ImagesPurdue Pharma, maker of the opioid painkiller OxyContin, has proposed paying a larger financial settlement to resolve numerous lawsuits against it that accuse the company of contributing to the opioid crisis in the U.S. In a filing in bankruptcy court, the company, largely controlled by the Sackler family, proposed a payment of $4.28 billion, an increase from the $3 billion in the original settlement proposal. A number of states have filed lawsuits against the drugmaker and had dismissed the $3 billion settlement from the family offer as insufficient. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, representing one of the plaintiff states, was initially unimpressed with the new offer.