Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma on Monday urged a judge to hold Johnson & John...
NORMAN, Okla. - Lawyers for the state of Oklahoma on Monday urged a judge to hold Johnson & Johnson responsible for fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic, as the first trial nationally in litigation over the drug crisis came to an end.
“This company went out and sponsored lies,” Brad Beckworth, a lawyer for the state, said in his closing argument. “They went out and said the risk of addiction was less than 1%.” The Oklahoma case is being closely watched by plaintiffs in other opioid lawsuits, particularly in 1,900 cases pending before a federal judge in Ohio who has been pushing for a settlement ahead of an October trial.
J&J denies causing the epidemic. Its lawyers have argued that its products made up a small share of opioids prescribed in Oklahoma and carried U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved labels that warned of the addictive risks.
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