Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced an agreement in principle with national grocery giant Kroger that will require the grocery chain to pay a total of $1.37 billion to participating state and local governments, including Oregon, for their role as... View Article
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Opioids on September 11, 2023
State will receive nearly $220 million more for opioid crisis response Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced the final acceptance of $17.3 billion in opioid agreements by drug makers Teva and Allergan and pharmacies CVS and Walgreens. Oregon is anticipated... View Article
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Opioids on June 9, 2023
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced today that Oregon has joined 41 other states in a nationwide $102.5 million settlement with the maker of Suboxone, Indivior Inc. Oregon will receive approximately $1.5 million from the settlement. Suboxone is used in the... View Article
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Opioids on June 2, 2023
In a monumental year for public health-related legal settlements, including last week’s nearly $700 million settlement with Monsanto over PCB contamination in Oregon, the Oregon Department of Justice has recently signed onto eight multi-state agreements with companies that either distributed,... View Article
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Opioids on December 22, 2022
SALEM, OREGON- Attorney General Rosenblum today, along with many of her AG colleagues across the country, announced a national agreement with CVS and Walgreens for the pharmacies’ conduct in fueling the opioid epidemic. Walgreens operates the second largest pharmacy store... View Article
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Opioids on December 12, 2022
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced a national Attorney General settlement with Walmart to resolve allegations that Walmart contributed to the opioid addiction crisis by failing to appropriately oversee the dispensing of opioids at its stores. This is the first settlement... View Article
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Opioids on November 15, 2022
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced today that Oregon will receive an accelerated payment of $46 million this year from Oregon’s $66 million share of the $5 billion national settlement with Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), for their... View Article
Help is on the way — lots of it — for Oregonians with substance abuse issues. Today, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced that Oregon received the first round of payments from an historic $21 billion settlement with the three largest... View Article
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Opioids on July 29, 2022
Oregon to receive up to $97 million in Purdue Pharma and $329 million in drug distributors/manufacturers cases Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced a major settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family that will deliver up to $6 billion... View Article
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Opioids on March 3, 2022
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum today announced an imminent agreement with Oregon’s cities and counties for the allocation of Oregon’s approximately $329 million share of an historic $26 billion national settlement with the three largest distributors of opioids (McKesson, AmerisourceBergen... View Article
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Opioids on December 20, 2021