J&J liable for $572 million in Oklahoma opioid epidemic trial, shares rise

NORMAN, Okla. (Reuters) - An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $572.1 million (466 million pounds) to the state for its part in fueling an opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing addictive painkillers.J&J said it would to appeal the decision, though the award was below what some investors and analysts had feared, in what had been a $17 billion lawsuit considered a bellwether for other litigation nationwide over the opioid epidemic."The expectation was this was going to..