TEVA Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd

By Allison Prang

The office of Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has dismissed claims against a host of pharmaceutical companies, including Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. and Purdue Pharma, in order to focus on the public nuisance claim it has against the opioid manufacturers.

Mr. Hunter's office said in an announcement Thursday that it dismissed these claims "during another hearing where defendants were tying up the court and the state's attorneys with a blizzard of pretrial motions."

The office said that its remaining public nuisance claim "provides the state with a comprehensive plan to address and remediate the effects the opioid crisis continues to have" across the state.

"The defendants in this case have tried in every way imaginable to derail our trial date," Mr. Hunter said in prepared remarks, adding that "moving forward with the state's public nuisance claim moots most of the issues raised by the defendants in discovery, allowing the parties and the judge to focus on preparing for this trial."

The trial is still scheduled to start May 28, it said.

Last month, Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, agreed to pay $270 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma.

Write to Allison Prang at allison.prang@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

April 05, 2019 08:29 ET (12:29 GMT)

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