Teva, Allergan, CVS, and Walgreens Finalize Opioid Settlement Agreements
Date
June 9, 2023
Vermont to Receive $46.4 million to Fight the Opioid Crisis
Opiates
Vermont To Receive $215,500 From Online Vaping Retailers
Date
April 13, 2022
Settlements Resolve Violations of State’s Delivery Sales Ban and Consumer Protection Act
Vermont To Receive $64 Million From Opioid Agreement with Drug Distributors and Johnson & Johnson
Date
February 25, 2022
Contact: Lauren Jandl, Asst. Director of Communications, 802-828-3171
Vermont To Receive $145,750 From Online Vaping Retailers
Date
November 23, 2021
Settlements Resolve Violations of State’s Delivery Sales Ban and Consumer Protection Act
Contact: Charity R. Clark, Chief of Staff, 802-828-3171
Vermont to Receive $165,000 from Online Vaping Retailers
Date
August 3, 2021
Attorney General T.J. Donovan today announced that his office has reached settlements with three different online sellers of electronic cigarettes for violations of Vermont’s Delivery Sales Ban and Consumer Protection Act. Under the settlements, the companies resolved claims that they sold electronic cigarettes, e-liquids, or other tobacco paraphernalia to individual consumers. As of July 1, 2019, it is illegal to sell electronic cigarettes and related vaping products over the internet to individual Vermont consumers.
Attorney General Donovan Announces Major Settlement with Opioid Distributers
Date
July 21, 2021
Contact: Charity Clark, Chief of Staff, 802-828-3171
Vermont to Receive Roughly $60 Million from Cardinal, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Johnson & Johnson
Statement by Attorney General T.J. Donovan Regarding Vermont’s Opposition to Purdue Bankruptcy Plan
Date
July 8, 2021
I do not support the proposed Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan because it does not sufficiently hold the Sackler family accountable. The Sacklers are the founders and owners of Purdue Pharma, which sparked and fueled the opioid crisis. Through this bankruptcy plan, the Sacklers are leveraging their enormous wealth to obtain the protection of the bankruptcy court by having the court extinguish the states’ claims against the Sacklers.
Vermont To Receive $157,500 from Online Vaping Retailers
Date
May 26, 2021
Settlements Resolve Violations of State’s Delivery Sales Ban and Consumer Protection Act
Contact: Charity R. Clark, Chief of Staff, 802-828-3171
Attorney General Donovan Settles Opioids Case with McKinsey
Date
February 4, 2021
Vermont to Receive $1.536 Million in National Settlement
Contact: Charity R. Clark, Chief of Staff, 802-828-3171
Attorney General Supports Opioid Manufacturer’s Settlement Framework
Date
February 26, 2020
Contact: Charity R. Clark, Chief of Staff, 802-828-3171
Attorney General T.J. Donovan announced that opioid manufacturer, Mallinckrodt (MNK), has devised a global settlement framework that would settle all opioid-related claims against it. The agreement in principle is supported by Vermont and 46 states and U.S. territories, as well as municipalities and other litigants in the federal opioid multidistrict litigation.
Attorney General Donovan Sues Sackler Family, Makers of OxyContin
Date
May 21, 2019
Contact: Jill Abrams, Director, Consumer Protection Unit, 802-828-3171
Lawsuit Alleges Violations of Consumer Protection Act, Unjust Enrichment, Public Nuisance
Attorney General Donovan Sues Opiate Distributors Cardinal and Mckesson
Date
March 26, 2019
Contact: Jill Abrams, Director Consumer Protection Unit, 802-828-3171
Attorney General T.J. Donovan today filed a lawsuit against two distributors of opiates, Cardinal Health Inc. and McKesson Corporation. The lawsuit, filed in Chittenden Superior Court, alleges that Defendants committed unfair and deceptive acts in violation of the Vermont Consumer Protection Act and alleges claims of negligence and public nuisance. The State also contends that these distributors fraudulently concealed their unlawful conduct.
Vermont Sues Purdue Pharma For Its Opioids Marketing Practices
Date
September 5, 2018
Contact: Jill Abrams, Director, Consumer Protection Unit, (802) 828-1106
AG Alleges Deceptive and Unfair Acts and Public Nuisance
Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan announced that today his office filed a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma. The lawsuit alleges violations of the Vermont Consumer Protection Act and public nuisance law concerning Purdue’s marketing and promotion of opioids. Purdue is the manufacturer of Oxycontin.