Lawsuits filed over the opioid crisis continued to mount this week, with an action Tuesday brought by South Carolina against drugmaker Purdue Pharma LP and suits by Birmingham, Ala., and Cincinnati against drug distributors. South Carolina’s suit follows efforts by several other jurisdictions to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable for what they call deceptive marketing of opioid painkillers. The states and others say that such...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 15, 2017 17:26 UTC