OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is asking a court to throw out a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts’ attorney general that accuses the company, its owners and top executives of deceiving patients and doctors about the risks of opioids.
In its most expansive response to date, Connecticut-based Purdue argued in a motion filed late Friday that the state makes “sensational and inflammatory allegations” in its bid to hold the company accountable for America’s deadly opioid addiction crisis, and called for the lawsuit to be dismissed “as oversimplified scapegoating based on a distorted account of the facts.”
