The Opioid Onslaught: Indictments, Civil Suits Strike Fear in Hearts of General Counsel at Opioid Companies
Experts say the opioid crisis in America has damaged 2.4 million people, claimed 300,000 lives and has cost the country over $500 billion in economic harm.
September 30, 2019 at 01:00 AM
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Experts say the opioid crisis in America has damaged 2.4 million people, claimed 300,000 lives and has cost the country over $500 billion in economic harm. The damage—and an urgent quest to place civil and criminal blame for it—has created a fearsome time for general counsel and chief compliance officers at many U.S. companies that make, distribute or sell the drugs.
Increasingly general counsel are having to deal with criminal investigations and indictments of their drug companies, and sometimes of their own roles. One example was the indictment in April of the Rochester Drug Co-Operative in New York along with its chief compliance officer. In July prosecutors arrested the chief compliance officer of Miami-Luken Inc. for allegedly helping the company to illegally sell millions of dollars' worth of opioids.
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