Newsroom category: Opioids News

JPML Centralizes Suboxone Tooth Decay Lawsuits

February 6, 2024

The nationally recognized mass tort law firm Levin Papantonio Rafferty (LPR) announces that the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) created a multidistrict litigation (MDL No. 3092) for In re: Suboxone (Buprenorphine/Naloxone) Film Products Liability Litigation. The JPML issued a Transfer Order on Friday, February 2, 2024, to centralize lawsuits in which claimants allege they were […]

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Kroger Will Pay $1.4 Billion to Resolve its Opioid Cases

September 8, 2023

Levin Papantonio Rafferty (LPR), the trailblazing mass torts law firm that has marched at the forefront of the national prescription opiates addiction litigation, is pleased to announce a nationwide opioid settlement agreement with Kroger. The American retail company will pay $1.28 billion in abatement and $1.4 billion total to state and local governments across the country to […]

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$500 Million Opioids Settlement Secured from Walgreens

June 13, 2023

Heavy-hitter mass torts law firm Levin Papantonio Rafferty (LPR) proudly announced a $500-million settlement agreement with Walgreens, the pharmaceutical giant accused of recklessly dispensing opioids and, in so doing, facilitating the State of New Mexico’s opioid crisis. “The New Mexico settlement is one of the largest separate settlements ever obtained from a single opioid defendant […]

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