by admin | Mar 8, 2021 | Media
When Janell Miller’s family or friends needed help, they turned to her. Miller’s sister, Jamie Pietrantonio, called Janell the glue that held the family together. But Miller’s compassion for others couldn’t keep her from the iron grip of opioid addiction. Pietrantonio...
by admin | Oct 29, 2020 | Media
A bankruptcy judge Friday ruled it would be “particularly heartless” to prevent the family of a New Jersey woman killed by an opioid overdose from pursuing payments from the insurers of Rochester Drug Cooperative. The family of Sarah Fuller, who died in...
by admin | Oct 22, 2020 | Media
Family of New Jersey woman who died of overdose still trying to sue Rochester Drug Cooperative Gary Craig Rochester Democrat and Chronicle The family of a New Jersey woman who died of an opioid overdose is pushing to continue its lawsuit against Rochester Drug...
by admin | Oct 12, 2020 | Media
In a Missouri medical malpractice case expected to reverberate nationwide among those trying to stem the tide of opioid abuse, a St. Louis jury in June imposed a $17.6 million verdict on behalf of a plaintiff represented by a trial team that included Johnny M. Simon...
by admin | Sep 29, 2020 | Media
Dr. Kurt Moran, 68, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, has been charged with overprescribing Subsys to thirteen of his patients in exchange for kickback money. He was allegedly paid $140,000 by Insys Therapeutics over a two-year period to prescribe the powerful opioid for...
by admin | Sep 13, 2020 | Media
Twenty-nine year old Carol Skolek was a single mom in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. April 29, 2002, was the first time her 6-year-old son, Brian, had come back from school and didn’t her waiting for him at the bus stop near their house. When Brian got home he...