Sackler family set to pay $4.5bn to settle opioid claims after judge approves plan
by Associated Press from on (#5P223)
Conditional approval for plan to organize drugmaker into new company with board appointed by public officials
A US federal bankruptcy judge on Wednesday conditionally approved a sweeping, potentially $10bn plan submitted by the OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma to settle a mountain of lawsuits over its role in the opioid crisis that has killed a half-million Americans over the past two decades.
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