Teva: Here’s How We Plan To Solve ‘Litigation Challenges’

Materials ‘Deliberately Not Handed Over Before Closing Remarks,’ Teva Says

After being found liable for helping fuel the opioid epidemic in New York last month, Teva used the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to explain how it intends to go about overturning the verdict.

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Teva was recently found liable by a jury in New York • Source: Alamy/Andrii Yalanskyi

The alleged overstatement of opioid volumes sold by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. in the closing remarks of the recent New York jury verdict – holding that the Israeli firm did help fuel the opioid epidemic in the state – was “not a fair way to do it,” Teva has insisted, as it revealed the latest of its plans to pursue a mistrial.

Last month, following a mammoth six-month trial, a six-member jury issued a verdict finding that Teva and certain of its...

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