Oklahoma Judge Orders Johnson & Johnson To Pay $572M For Opioid Abatement

(August 26, 2019, 4:39 PM EDT) -- NORMAN, Okla. — An Oklahoma state court judge on Aug. 26 found the state proved that Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals created a public nuisance in their manufacture and marketing of opioids and ordered them to pay $572.1 million to fund the first years of an opioid crisis abatement program (Oklahoma, et al. v. Purdue Pharma L.P., et al., No. CJ-2017-816, Okla. Dist., Cleveland Co.)....

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