Opioid Companies Targeted at First Jury Trial Over U.S. Epidemic

Opioid makers and drug distributors ignored the devastating effects of the highly addictive painkillers they improperly sold to coldly reap billions in profits, lawyers for New York and two Long Island communities told a jury Tuesday.

• Trial of civil claims by New York and the counties of Nassau and Suffolk is the first of thousands of U.S. lawsuits filed by state and local governments over the opioid crisis to be heard by a jury
• Companies including Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.and McKesson Corp. racked up sales while illegally marketing pills or ignoring red flags about unusually large orders, Hunter Shkolnik ...