Retired Oregon justice department lawyer says state should reject Purdue opioid settlement

Retired Oregon justice department lawyer says state should reject Purdue opioid settlement

David Hart isn’t necessarily one of the people you’d expect to be critical of the $7.4 billion multi-state opioid settlement reached with drug company Purdue. For 25 years, he was the assistant attorney general at the Oregon Department of Justice until his retirement last month, and he headed the department’s opioid litigation and recovery/pharmaceutical fraud unit. One way or another, he’s represented the state in opioid litigation and negotiat…