Consulting firm McKinsey agrees to settlement with insurers over opioids
Under the agreement, the consulting firm would establish a fund to reimburse insurers, private benefit plans and others for some or all of their prescription opioid costs. Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million (€70.5 million) to settle claims from insurers and health care…#consulting #mckinseyandco #purduepharma #oxycontin #cdc #mckinsey #districtofcolumbia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Supreme Court may toss out Purdue Pharma ’s bankruptcy settlement
F ago Owen Fiss, a legal scholar, wrote an article called “Against settlement”, about lawsuits’ social purpose. Big civil disputes of public import, he argued, are about more than money damages. Rather, they present a chance for collective reckoning: airing harms, assigning fault, upholding…#fago #owenfiss #supremecourt #purdue #sacklers #abbegluck #yalelawschool #oxycontin #justicedepartment #williamorganek (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Consulting firm McKinsey to pay $78M in U.S. opioid settlement with health insurers, company benefit plans
Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that its work with drug companies helped fuel an epidemic of opioid addiction. The settlement, disclosed in documents filed on Friday in federal court in San Francisco, must…#mckinseyco #nativeamerican #mckinsey #purduepharma #oxycontin #paulgeller #ussupremecourt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
McKinsey and Co. agrees to $78 million settlement over claims it helped fuel opioid crisis
Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug companies helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis. The agreement was revealed late Friday in documents filed in federal court in San Francisco. The settlement…#mckinseyandco #purduepharma #oxycontin #mckinsey #districtofcolumbia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Consulting firm McKinsey agrees to $78 million settlement over claims it helped fuel the opioid crisis
Consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its work with drug companies helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis. The agreement was revealed late Friday in documents filed in federal court in San Francisco. The settlement…#mckinseyandco #purduepharma #oxycontin #mckinsey #districtofcolumbia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Consulting firm McKinsey agrees to $78 million settlement with insurers over opioids
FILE - OxyContin pills are arranged for a photo, Feb. 19, 2013, at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. In an agreement revealed late Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, consulting firm McKinsey and Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to settle claims from insurers and health care funds that its marketing work with…#fileoxycontin #montpelier #vt #mckinseyandco #purduepharma #oxycontin #apphototobytalbot #consulting #mckinsey #districtofcolumbia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The deaths-of-despair narrative is out of date
M theories come and go with little fanfare. Every once in a while, however, one catches fire. In 2015 Anne Case and Angus Deaton, two Princeton University economists, published a landmark study showing that from the late 1990s the mortality rate of white middle-aged Americans had started to rise…#annecase #angusdeaton #princetonuniversity #boeing #747 #mscase #hispanicamericans #donaldtrump #oxycontin #economist (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Could magic mushrooms replace oxycodone? Ingredient found in psychedelic helps treat chronic pain by reshaping the brain, study suggests
Psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, helped relieve chronic pain in mice, according to a new study. The pain relief lasted for weeks, long after the drug's effects ended. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Urgent alert over Chinese-made 'Frankenstein' opioids 1,000 TIMES stronger than morphine as crime chiefs link terrifying substance to at least 54 deaths in six months
Nitazenes, smuggled into Britain via typical criminal routes, are mixed into heroin because they are so cheap and addictive . Sometimes they are sold as oxycodone pills or Xanax powders. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Warning over super-strength Chinese-made 'Frankenstein' opioids flooding Britain as crime chiefs link substance to at least 54 deaths in last six months
Nitazenes, smuggled into Britain via typical criminal routes, are mixed into heroin because they are so cheap and addictive . Sometimes they are sold as oxycodone pills or Xanax powders. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
As Supreme Court weighs Purdue Pharma case, families recount painful process
As the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday weighed the legality of Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement, some relatives of opioid victims converged on Washington to voice their frustrations with the process. The settlement involving Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, landed…#ussupremecourt #purduepharma #oxycontin #supremecourt #ustrustee #departmentofjustice #ustrustees #brettkavanaugh #curtisgannon #gannon (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Supreme Court Weighs Purdue Pharma ’s $6 Billion Opioid Settlement
WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices wrestled Monday with the uncomfortable bargain struck between most victims of the opioid crisis and the Sackler family, whose Purdue Pharma promoted the addictive painkiller OxyContin: providing timely compensation for survivors in exchange for granting the…#supremecourt #purduepharma #oxycontin #purdue (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Supreme Court wrestles with OxyContin maker's bankruptcy deal, with billions of dollars at stake
The Supreme Court is wrestling with a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Opioid Crisis and Corporate Accountability: Purdue's Settlement in the Spotlight
The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing a contentious bankruptcy settlement involving Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family. In 2019, Purdue Pharma filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a response to the numerous lawsuits claiming that its opioid product, OxyContin,…#ussupremecourt #purduepharma #oxycontin #chapter11 #sacklers #purdue (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
OxyContin maker bankruptcy deal goes before the Supreme Court on Monday, with billions at stake
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
