Health Care & Hospital Law
Apr. 22, 2021
Drug company lawyers grill historian in opioid trial
Attorneys for the four main drug company defendants — Teva Pharmaceuticals, Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., Allergan PLC and Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc — implied in their cross-examinations that Purdue and not their clients was the driving force behind an aggressive marketing campaign designed to ramp up opioid sales.
A medical historian testified Wednesday that pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma and other drug companies were aware of the opioid crisis while aggressively marketing opioids in the early 2000s, during the third day of a $50 billion virtual bench trial in the Orange County Superior Court.
Representing the state, which claims Purdue and other drugmakers, through false advertising of opioids, contributed to a crisis, Connecticut attorne...
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