Camden County in southern New Jersey has joined hundreds of counties nationwide in suing the opioid-painkiller manufacturer Purdue Pharma L.P., but in an unusual step it also has named as co-defendants members of the company’s controlling family, the Sacklers. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Superior Court in the city of Camden is a rare example of plaintiffs seeking to hold Purdue’s controlling shareholders personally responsible for allegedly marketing opioids in a deceptive manner that played down the drugs’ addictive risks...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 21, 2018 21:28 UTC