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"A Punch in the Gut": After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement
Roughly a thousand pages of bankruptcy filings and claim-denial letters, read against what claimants were told to expect. The revised $7.4 billion Purdue settlement tightened eligibility to the point that more than half of about 140,000 claimants receive nothing. We are carrying it because it is the same settlement architecture Pennsylvania counties are spending against, and because the reporting is built from the paperwork rather than from the announcement.
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