The judge ordered the New Jersey-based drugmaker to pay $465 million in reimbursement for tax dollars spent dealing with the social ills tied to the epidemic. The ruling marks a turn-around for J&J, which faced an Oklahoma judge’s 2019 ruling it spawned a public nuisance in the state through its opioid marketing. who suffer from opioid addiction will only come when comprehensive settlements are finalized and resources are made available to all who need them,” the Israel-based drugmaker said in a statement. “A clear win for the many patients in the U.S. still suffer from the fallout of the opioid epidemic and need help. Teva also praised the ruling, while saying the company recognizes that communities across the U.S. John Hueston, a lawyer for Endo, said the judge properly found the company “did not make false or misleading statements, and Endo’s lawful conduct did not cause the widespread public nuisance at issue in plaintiffs’ complaint.” J&J said it’s pleased Wilson found its Janssen unit’s opioid marketing and promotion “were appropriate and responsible and did not cause any public nuisance,” according to a statement. “The people of California will have their opportunity to pursue justice on appeal and ensure no opioid manufacturer can engage in reckless corporate practices that compromise public health in the state for their own profit,” they said in a statement. Lawyers for the local governments said they’ll ask a California appeals court to review the ruling.
“The court finds plaintiffs failed to prove an actionable public nuisance for which the defendants are legally liable,” Wilson concluded in a tentative ruling. opioid epidemic, which has claimed the lives of almost 500,000 Americans over the last two decades. It’s the first time a judge or jury has rejected claims by states or local governments that ex-opioid makers should be held liable for the fallout from the U.S. Officials in Los Angeles, Santa Clara and Orange counties and the city of Oakland sought as much as $50 billion to beef up policing and treatment budgets depleted by the epidemic. Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson in Santa Ana on Monday rejected claims that units of J&J, Teva, Endo International Plc and Abbvie Inc.’s Allergan Plc duped doctors and patients about the addictiveness of opioid painkillers and created a so-called “public nuisance” tied to the medications. and other former opioid makers scored the pharmaceutical industry’s first win in the sprawling four-year litigation over the drugs, defeating a lawsuit by local governments in California that claimed they created a public-health crisis through misleading marketing. Johnson & Johnson, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. OC judge rules in favor of former opioid makers in $50 billion lawsuit – Orange County Register
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