McKinsey has agreed to pay $573 million to settle claims by U.S. states that the consulting company helped fuel the opioid epidemic by providing marketing advice to drugmakers including Purdue Pharma and Johnson & Johnson.
New York-based McKinsey will also produce tens of thousands of its internal documents detailing its work for Purdue Pharma and other opioid companies for public disclosure online, according to a statement by North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, who helped lead negotiations on behalf of dozens of U.S. states.
