Purdue Pharma and hundreds of tribes have yet to distribute $200 million in emergency funding to mitigate local opioid crises, but quickly organized around paying states' attorneys.
States, counties and tribes have welcomed Purdue Pharma's offer to cover their legal fees, while the firm's promised emergency fund for victims continues to stall.
"The money can be used to save lives today. That's what it should be used for," said Edward Neiger, the counsel forto Purdue's hallmark opioid OxyContin, who filed a complaint against Purdue's arrangement on Tuesday. Purdue Pharma headquarters stands in downtown Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, are facing hundreds of lawsuits across the country for the company's alleged role in the opioid epidemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans over the past 20 years.
In turn, the plaintiffs selected firms Brown Rudnick LLP, Gilbert LLP, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP and Outterbourg PC as their legal counsel, which would be reimbursed at"their customary rates," according to the September 15 agreement with Purdue Pharma.
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