BOMBSHELL JUDGEMENT - Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million Opioid Trial

SPECIAL EDITION ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW RADIO CALL IN LIVE 516-531-9990Show Sponsor The Law office of Waranchnunn Oklahoma pursued the first case against a drug manufacturer for the national public health disaster, and the ruling may point to what lies ahead in 2,000 more lawsuits. A judge in Oklahoma on Monday ruled that Johnson & Johnson had intentionally played down the dangers and oversold the benefits of opioids, and ordered it to pay the state $572 million in the first trial of a drug manufacturer for the destruction wrought by prescription painkillers.The amount fell far short of the $17 billion judgment that Oklahoma had sought to pay for addiction treatment, drug courts and other services it said it would need over the next 20 years to repair the damage done by the opioid epidemic.