Missouri attorney general sues opioid manufacturers
REUTERS 10:10 AM ET 6/21/2017
Symbol Last Price Change
JNJ 134.88 +0.66 (+0.49%)
ENDP 11.45down +0.41 (+3.71%)
QUOTES AS OF 10:11:40 AM ET 06/21/2017
June 21 (Reuters) - Missouri's attorney general on Wednesday announced a lawsuit against three major drug manufacturers claiming they fraudulently misrepresented the risks posed by opioid painkillers now at the center of a national addiction epidemic.
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley said the lawsuit was filed in a state court against Purdue Pharma LP, Johnson & Johnson's(JNJ)Janssen Pharmaceuticals and a unit of Endo International Plc(ENDP). (Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2017. Click For Restrictions - about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
Sir William Osler
