opioids
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The First Circuit said Wednesday that Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and other former executives can’t dodge prison while they appeal convictions on charges of scheming to bribe doctors to prescribe the company’s fentanyl spray, but they’re asking the trial court to put off their prison surrender date… Read this piece in its entirety
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A West Virginia doctor who was convicted of handing out illegal opioid prescriptions will get a new trial after the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that the lower court had improperly allowed prosecutors to present evidence that wasn’t directly related to the doctor’s alleged crimes… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Two dozen states and the District of Columbia have joined calls for a New York federal court to push back the cutoff date for filing claims in the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma LP, citing the obstacles created by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A physician’s assistant charged with pretending to be a doctor and handing out unnecessary opioid prescriptions will have to face some of the previously dismissed charges against him, while his supervising physician is off the hook, a New Jersey state appeals court ruled Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Purdue Pharma LP announced on Friday that it has tapped former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to monitor compliance with an injunction in the OxyContin maker’s ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 