A New York Supreme Court Judge denied on Monday the plaintiffs’ motion for certification of a personal injury lawsuit claiming harm, including addiction, caused as a result of using OxyContin pills, drugmaker Purdue Pharma said in press release on Thursday.
In Hurtado, et al. V. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al., Justice Stephen J. Maltese ruled that […]

Purdue Pharma reported yesterday that five more OxyContin Lawsuits against the company based on claims of personal injuries resulting from use of the drug had been dismissed. According to Purdue, the company paid nothing in settlement of any of the dismissed cases, which bring the total number of court ordered dismissals to 47. Currently no […]

Federal and state courts in Florida, Mississippi, and West Virginia have dismissed six more OxyContin lawsuits against Purdue Pharma in the past 30 days, said the pharmaceutical company. The actions of the courts bring to 36 the total number of OxyContin cases against Purdue that have been tossed.
“We are gratified that these lawsuits have ended […]

Purdue Pharma faces its first OxyContin class-action lawsuit after an Ohio District Court of Appeals affirmed certification of a lawsuit brought by more than 1,000 Ohioans that claim they were injured by the drug maker’s highly addictive painkiller.
The lawsuit accuses Purdue Pharma and Abbott Laboratories of irresponsibly marketing the controversial painkiller to Ohioans for wide […]

An effort to consolidate dozens of federal lawsuits against Purdue Pharma, the maker of the controversial painkiller OxyContin, is dead after plaintiffs withdrew their request for multidistrict litigation. The lawsuits accuse Purdue Pharma of over-promoting OxyContin while playing down its potential for abuse or fatal side effects.
OxyContin is a form of synthetic morphine that is […]

The Food and Drug Administration released a warning stating that Purdue Pharma, the maker of the controversial painkiller OxyContin, placed ads in The Journal of the American Medical Association that “grossly overstate” the drug’s safety. The body of the two ads does not mention that OxyContin can cause fatal side effects or discuss its potential […]