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Week ordered johnson & johnson to pay $572 million for its role in the opioid crisis, siding with state attorney general mike hunter who claimed that the drugmaker aggressively marketed opioids to doctors while repeatedly downplaying the risks of addiction. those sales practice, the state argued, led to an oversupply of the painkillers and created a public nuisance. a legal argument and ruling that could have far-reaching and maybe dangerous consequences. were back with our panel. allysia, you w...

Arent doing -- theyre misdirecting the worry out there, and then also theres a benefit for them, right? they get these deep pockets, and it provides a lot of money for the state government that theyre suing on behalf of. paul: yeah, kate, it doesnt look like any individual patients are really going to benefit here, much of the money will go into state coffers and, of course, the trial lawyers who brought this public nuisance theory to mr. hunter are going to get a big bundle of cash. so the ques...

They have to be provided by government-licensed pharmacies. they were not, the a.g. was not able to show that johnson & johnson did anything illegal, let alone criminal here. paul: so did he even try to show what you would call a line of causation from their manufacturer, distribution, marketing to doctors and then on to patients that you would normally have to establish for product liability? >> no. they basically dodged around most product liability by using this, quote-unquote, public nuisanc...

Other drugs that people are using and overdosing on. so i think its one of those cases where public is looking for someone to blame, but its a large, intractable social problem with many authors. paul: allysia, do you think j&j is going to appeal here, do you think it should keep fighting on? >> well, i do think it should keep fighting on all the way to the u.s. supreme court if necessary in order to establish some kind of precedent perhaps for other cases. there are 2,000 other cases pending in...

Was his own idea for a pr plan to push the drug harder to try to drown out those early concerns that they knew about. that email from him was among the documents gathered by prosecutors in 2006 as they prepared federal criminal fraud charges against purdue pharma. this month "the new york times" has portions of the memo. prosecutors recommended felony charges against multiple purdue executives that could have put them all in jail. ultimately purdues lawyers bargained the prosecutors down. what r...

A company has been found guilty fueling an epidemic that has ravaged the country the case could shave negotiations in $1500.00 similar lawsuits. gail boxes son austin is one of $6000.00 oklahomans believed to have died from an opioid overdose since the start of the millennium a promising american footballer he died in his prime. i was living a nightmare the nightmare at prescription drug abuse. now the 1st of thousands of lawsuits aimed at holding money fractures and distributors to account has ...

Well, the landmark johnson & johnson trial sets a precedent for plaintiffs in roughly 1500 other opiate related lawsuits which have been consolidated now and will be one federal judge in cleveland, ohio. the cases argue a variety of companies from manufacturers to distributors are liable for the epidemic in the country. they t white house domestic advisers pegged the cost at over $500 billion. for more im joined by tim ryan, democratic congressman from ohio running for president. and thank you s...

Or not this is the beginning of something much larger. >> i think it will. even under the best of circumstances, johnson & johnson would have appealed the decision. thats that are right. its a novel legal theory. this public nuisance concept comes up in access to public waterways. in the tort concept it came up with the tobacco cases years and years ago. its possible to sue a business entity for creating a public nuisance. this is the first time we are seeing it with a drug company. appeals cour...

Trial in october? >> well, this is a very positive ruling for all of the communities that we represent. more than 2,000 are in litigation, as you know. and this was important because for the first time, a court with a full body of evidence before it looked at both sides of the argument and concluded, a, that there is an opioid epidemic, b, that its a public nuisance, and c, that in this case johnson & johnson was the cause of the nuisance. >> the public nuisance element of this, some have called...

Here in oklahoma. the state arguing that johnson & johnson had created this public nuisance that cost millions of dollars and devastated thousands of lives. the judge afirming that saying the opioid epidemic has ravaged the state and calling johnson & johnsons practices. >> the way the company manufactured these medications and marketed them to doctors was extremely responsible. there are warnings on these medications, fda approved warnings. it is up to the doctor with their patients to make dec...