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Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (NYSE:TEVA) and AbbVie Inc's (NYSE:ABBV) Allergan Plc are willing to pay more than $5 billion combined to resolve more than 3,500 lawsuits filed over highly addictive opioid painkillers, according to three people familiar with settlement talks.  The people said the companies have been in mediation talks with plaintiffs for more than a year. …

Boeing Co. may be moving to Washington, but right now it needs Washington to move.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk kept investors in the dark this weekend, floating a cryptic tweet with the word “tender,” a likely wink-and-nod reference to a potential tender offer to Twitter Inc. shareholders for control of the company.