Are You Waiting for Opioid Settlement Money From Purdue, Mallinckrodt or Endo? Get in Touch.
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ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer are investigating how opioid settlement money reaches individual victims.
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If you are waiting for opioid settlement money from Purdue, Mallinckrodt, or Endo, sharing your experience could help inform this investigation.
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ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer are investigating how individual opioid victims have been compensated for addiction and other harm from the prescription-opioid crisis. They are specifically looking into experiences seeking payment from court-appointed trusts funded by drugmakers Purdue, Mallinckrodt, and Endo. This investigation follows their previous reporting on the Endo bankruptcy and the impact of Purdue’s new bankruptcy plan on victims. The news organizations are asking individuals who are waiting for settlement money to share their experiences. This effort aims to shed light on the process of victim compensation from the tens of billions of pills distributed.
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ProPublica and The Philadelphia Inquirer are investigating individual opioid victim compensation processes.
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