STAT+: Judge reverses $4.5 billion Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement

A federal court judge has reversed the hotly contested Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan after deciding a bankruptcy judge did not have authority to grant immunity to the Sackler family members who control the controversial drug maker.

A provision in the plan grants immunity to some of the Sacklers as well as hundreds of their associates from future lawsuits, even though — unlike Purdue — they did not file for bankruptcy protection. The Sackler family members had insisted that a bankruptcy deal would not be possible, though, unless they were released from all future liability related to the harm caused by Purdue’s OxyContin painkiller.

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