September 18, 2019 - West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey filed a suit against Johnson and Johnson and subsidiary companies Ethicon Inc. and Ethicon US, LLC. According to a press release for the Attorney General's office, the lawsuit alleges that the companies engaged in unlawful, unfair and deceptive marketing practices associated with their...
September 13, 2019 - The opioid crisis has hit virtually every pocket of the U.S., from rural towns in deeply conservative states to big cities in liberal-leaning ones. But a curious divide has opened up. The nation’s Republican state attorneys general have, for the most part, lined up in support of a tentative multibillion-dollar settlement with OxyContin...
September 4, 2019 - Google agreed on Wednesday to pay a record $170 million fine and make changes to protect children’s privacy on YouTube, as regulators said the video site had knowingly and illegally harvested personal information from children and used it to profit by targeting them with ads. Critics denounced the agreement, dismissing the fine as...
August 27, 2019 - NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter about his state's winning case against Johnson & Johnson over the company's role in the opioid crisis. AILSA CHANG, HOST: The landmark decision in Oklahoma state court yesterday has huge implications for who should be held financially responsible for the nation's opioid...
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