<story><title>U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-investigations-opioids/u-s-states-seek-2-2-trillion-from-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-filings-idUSKCN25D2EG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ferros</author><text>Why even declare such an outlandish number?&lt;p&gt;What’s the difference between saying 2.2T or a gajillion bazillion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jcrawfordor</author><text>$2.2T, or it seems actually $2.15T, is the sum damage to the state economies as estimated by economists.&lt;p&gt;Yes, the strategy here is effectively just to throw out a huge number to argue that the damage done would be impossible to truly correct. But as a general principle you can&amp;#x27;t go to court and just ask for whatever number you feel like, you need to justify to the court exactly why you are owed that much. So they ran the numbers and $2.15T is what they thought they could justify.</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. states seek $2.2T from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-purdue-pharma-investigations-opioids/u-s-states-seek-2-2-trillion-from-oxycontin-maker-purdue-pharma-filings-idUSKCN25D2EG</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ferros</author><text>Why even declare such an outlandish number?&lt;p&gt;What’s the difference between saying 2.2T or a gajillion bazillion?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>iav</author><text>There are many other claimants in the Purdue bankruptcy other than the Multistate Group mentioned here. Each of those claimants is incentivized to make their claim as large as possible to reduce the amount left over for the hospitals, Native American tribes, individual victims, and the many other groups fighting to maximize their slice of the Purdue pie. Full list of unsecured claimants is in this document: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bankrupt11.com&amp;#x2F;dockets&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;p_purduepharma414&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bankrupt11.com&amp;#x2F;dockets&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;p_purduepharma414&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>