Purdue Pharma and its controlling Sackler family have offered a new settlement to resolve lawsuits over their involvement in the opioid epidemic, raising the payout from the Sacklers to $6 billion.

The Justice Department argued that shielding the… OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma can start its transformation under a bankruptcy agreement that allows the members of the wealthy Sackler family ...

WASHINGTON — Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge ... a deal that would have members of the Sackler family who own the company pay up to $7 billion. The filing is a milestone in a tumultuous ...

"Purdue Pharma is the reason the Sackler family are billionaires, and after today's settlement they will remain billionaires," said the group's research director Rick Claypool.