Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a ...

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Purdue Pharma and its Sackler family owners have reached a new opioid settlement to resolve thousands of lawsuits.

Purdue Pharma, the maker of the painkiller OxyContin, and its owners, the Sackler family, have agreed to a historic $7.4 billion settlement in a lawsuit stemming from the deadly toll of their drug.

Purdue Pharma, under the leadership of the Sackler family, manufactured and sold opioids like Oxycontin for decades.

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UnitedHealth Group will promote Tim Noel, who most recently led the company’s Medicare and retirement business, to replace Brian Thompson, the slain CEO of its UnitedHealthcare arm.

The new settlement reopens a path to ending Purdue’s chapter 11 case, the longest and costliest corporate bankruptcy stemming from the U.S. opioid epidemic.

Massachusetts residents who lost relatives to opioid overdoses expressed elation Thursday after the family that built its fortune on the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin agreed to a new deal to ...