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Civil Litigation

Apr. 29, 2021

Pharmaceutical CEO’s deposition played in opioid trial

The civil suit before Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson in Santa Ana could create a road map for global settlements, not only for California matters but throughout the country.

A drug company executive admitted opioids his company produced have a high potential for abuse in a deposition tape played during a $50 billion false advertising bench trial Wednesday.

With almost 200 people listening to the Orange County trial via Zoom, attorneys for four California municipalities played a tape of John Hassler, a senior vice president of Teva Pharmaceutical, acknowledging opioids designed to treat chronic pain have...

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