opioid lawsuit

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Oklahoma to dole out $23 million in first round of opioid lawsuit settlement funds

Kateleigh Mills

Attorney General Gentner Drummond announced the Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board will begin awarding eligible groups money to counteract some impacts from the opioid epidemic.

An arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen, also known as Percocet, in New York. A new report finds a link between workforce participation and the prescription rate of opioids in the U.S.

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Oklahoma Supreme Court reverses $465 million opioid verdict against Johnson & Johnson

Catherine Sweeney

After an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday, the state will lose some - but not all - of the money it secured suing opioid manufacturers.

Attorney Glenn Coffee, former state senator and Oklahoma Secretary of State, appeared at a news conference in January 2018 in support of a plan called “Step Up Oklahoma” designed to resolve a legislative budget impasse.

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Working In Background, Lawyer Reaps Fees In Opioid Case

Oklahoma Watch

Attorneys in the state’s sprawling opioid lawsuit have bragged that they slept on cots in their offices and went through millions of pages of evidence.But…