Mary Margaret Olohan An Oklahoma judge ruled Monday that Johnson & Johnson must pay $572 million to the state of Oklahoma for the company’s part in fueling the opioid crisis. District Judge Thad Balkman called the opioid crisis an “imminent danger and menace,” ruling against Johnson & Johnson in the first trial in the United…
Mary Margaret Olohan Republish Reprint A federal jury declared five Insys executives guilty Thursday of bribing doctors to prescribe addictive drugs to patients. The Boston jury found 76-year-old Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor and four other former company executives guilty of bribing doctors to prescribethe addictive fentanyl spray Subsys, CBS News reported. They convicted the highest-ranking pharmaceutical representative thus far in U.S. opioid related cases,according to Reuters….